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Why Did We Evolve To Get Depressed? - Paul Andrews, PhD
Is depression a biological malfunction, or did it evolve as an adaptive tool to help us solve complex life problems?
In this in-depth conversation, evolutionary biologist and psychologist Dr. Paul Andrews (McMaster University) joins Andrew Heacock to explore the evolutionary origins of depression, depressive realism, and rumination. We break down why conventional psychiatry and the DSM model may overpathologize normal emotional pain, the differences between adaptations and byproducts, how depressive thinking can foster hyper-rational problem-solving, and what this means for treatments like…
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