Depression Is A Form Of Self Protection

Despair is a form of self protection when protest doesn't work. Positive emotions and feelings of confidence and the desire to explore, search and seek out must be toned down because this aspect of the protection strategy is designed to stop the individual signalling and moving about in the environment when to do so is dangerous. It is saying 'Go to the back of the cave and stay there'. Ancestors of ours who in certain conditions got somewhat depressed and 'dropped out' for a while may have survived better than those who carried on regardless.

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