This is part of an effort to make diagnosis more objective and scientific, and encourage the profession to focus on observable symptoms rather than causes.Even if depression evolved as a useful tool over the eons, that doesn’t make it useful today.But in the case of depression, which often has clear preceding events, indifference to causality allows many appropriate patient responses to be categorized as disordered—and that flows directly from seeing depression as a breakdown rather than a strategic, evolved response.

Issue 019 Overall, victims needed help solving a critical problem and weren’t receiving it. I reflected on this long ago & I believe it to be true.

A spare ture around my gut ...l havent solved that one. Andrews and a colleague, Paul Watson, describing the social navigation hypothesis, a theory that includes a version of the bargaining model, wrote in a 2002 paper that instead of prescribing drugs, “it may be best to let depression work its miserable yet potentially adaptive magic on the social network under protective supervision.”It’s hard for anyone to think about a condition as destabilizing as depression in impersonal evolutionary terms, particularly those who have felt its burdensome grip. It’s typically a response to adversity, with up to 80 percent of cases following major life events.

Watson, P.J.

No amount of self reflection is going to make us feel better about how we will protect our feet when we walk out the door!

Thomas Joiner, an expert on suicide at Florida State University, says that “as episodes accrue, it can be harder and harder to find the trigger, but it’s usually there—triggers can be things like memories.” But since you can always point to something in your past with potential psychic consequences—that one time you got teased on the playground—the hypothesis that depression is an appropriate response to a stressful situation becomes nearly impossible to test objectively.There’s another big caveat.

Issue 033 In some circumstances, it … Watkins, E. & Baracaia, S. Why do people ruminate in dysphoric moods? Issue 034 Issue 004 “I’m basically telling colleagues they’re medicating people when they shouldn’t be. Issue 087 Three observations were most telling: First, victims had often suffered a threatening event, such as loss of a mate or resources, whose long-term repercussions depended on how others responded.

It has been hypothesized that depression is an evolutionary adaptation because it helps prevent infection in both the affected individual and his/her kin.

The homeless, disabled, poor, etc.

Issue 055 Social networks: We get by with (and in spite of) a little help from our friends. 4. Issue 029 Issue 083 It is evolution. I hope it helps some here to make sense of why they are feeling down,& to better overcome it.But with more thought, for me it is nothing new. Issue 084 Like many other young adolescents, I saw myself as fundamentally flawed, and felt a searing isolation.…By Matthew Hutson ngela Nicholson/PhotoPlus Magazine via Getty Images Issue 039

I often hear/read this advice on dealing with depression: help others. 9. 14 February 2017 It is human nature. I was hospitalized. Issue 024

Issue 020 Issue 088 Hutson, M. The Power of the Hoodie-Wearing CEO. Issue 010

Issue 054 My apologies for not taking your post as seriously as it deserves - my limitations showing -C"Purpose for depression " just sounds like another version of "everything happens for a reason" to me. Issue 052 We’ve evolved to crave sugar and fat, but that adaptation is mismatched with our modern environment of caloric abundance, leading to an epidemic of obesity.

Hagen sees depression as a social problem and not a medical problem. Issue 051 Most parents would decide in an instant to jump in front of a bus to save their children.