Depressed People Are More Likely to Kill Theirself Than Sick People

#041 Dr. Charles Raison on Depression, the Immune-Brain Interface & Whole-Body Hyperthermia

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Depressed People Are More Likely to Kill Theirself Than Sick People

Human depression may have evolved out of sickness. Many symptoms and some very surprising ones are shared by depression and sickness. Depressed people are more likely to want to kill themselves or be down on themselves. A fever is an anti pathogen, it's an antibiotic strategy. And so if you think about why would those characteristics occur in a condition like depression we think it was being largely psychosocial.

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