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#632 - Ed Hagen - The Evolutionary Psychology Of Anxiety & Depression
Modern Wisdom
The Evolution of Depression
Ed Hagen: How should we understand depression through an evolutionarily adaptive lens? He says the evidence is overwhelming that it's adversity. "Psychic pain, sadness and even depression are probably very analogous to psychic pain as a way to stop furthering any problems," he says.
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