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Justin Garson on madness, psychiatry, functions, evolution
Thing in itself
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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