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Resilience, endurance, learning to overcome adversity, learning to overcome yourself, learning to be self-aware, thinking "differently". I could think of dozens
by gustavo-fring 5y ago
Resilience, endurance, learning to overcome adversity, learning to overcome yourself, learning to be self-aware, thinking "differently". I could think of dozens of other reasons. No?
- anoncake 5y ago> Resilience, endurance Literal survivor's bias. If you are depressed but not resilient, you kill yourself. > learning to overcome adversity, learning to overcome yourself Overcoming adversity requires doing something. Depression prevents that. > learning to be self-aware I wish. > thinking "differently". In what way?
- bigfudge 5y agoRelative To the numbers of people depressed, very few people kill themselves so I can’t see that this is a counter argument.
- anoncake 5y ago"Just" 20%. https://www.medscape.com/answers/286759-14675/what-is-the-suicide-rate-among-persons-with-depressive-disorder-clinical-depression https://www.medscape.com/answers/286759-14675/what-is-the-su...
- caddemon 5y agoI'm not sure these are good examples, but depressive realism is a pretty legit hypothesis about a potential evolutionary benefit. There's also some hypotheses about energy expenditure - doing nothing is sometimes the right move, although that would have been more important a long time ago than now. These sort of ideas are hard to evaluate definitively, but I do think it is plausible that mild depression had/to some extent may still have benefits. Of course certain traits can be taken too far though, and when viewed through that lens it is hard to understand how they could be beneficial at all. One could say a similar thing about Autism-like traits.
- bawolff 5y agoPretty sure these are not features of major depression.
- gustavo-fring 5y agoDepression affects everyone differently. But it does not mean a constant unending, it can come and go and those peaks and valleys lead to what I'm talking about.