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Justin Garson on madness, psychiatry, functions, evolution

Thing in itself

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The Evolved Purpose of Depression

Some evolutionary psychiatrists say depression has an evolved purpose. It's like your brain trying to tell you that there's something going wrong in your life, he says. "Depression might be the brains of all signal to say, okay, let's just withdraw from this particular plan and reevaluate our life goals"

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