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I'm not a doctor, but I was also very surprised that this is "news" to the medical world. I has just always assumed that this was a well known thing, because it
by DarkWiiPlayer 6y ago
I'm not a doctor, but I was also very surprised that this is "news" to the medical world. I has just always assumed that this was a well known thing, because it just seems completely logical to me.
Just asking "what could the evolutionary purpose of depression be?" should already lead to the conclusion that it's most likely a mental defense mechanism, or byproduct of one, that can most likely be triggered by experiences rather than just be part of a persons genetics.
But apparently it wasn't all that obvious after all.
- svachalek 6y agoThere are lots of obvious and completely logical things about the world, like the sun and planets go around the earth, animals cannot feel pain, and insects form spontaneously from rotten matter. But some of them are not correct despite being obvious and logical to everyone, and thus we have science.
- Avshalom 6y agoThere is no a priori reason to think depression has an "evolutionary purpose" any more than to think a broken bone does.