Sister Sarah
"evidence is offered that diverse mental health problems function as mechanisms to inhibit suicide,...
...by disabling, distracting or preoccupying people at risk of taking their own lives." https://www.academia.edu/8493287/Anti-suicide_mechanisms_as_a_general_evolutionary_explanation_for_common_mental_disorders …
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So possibly (1) mental illness doesn't cause suicide, suicidality causes mental illness and (2) curing mental illness can cause suicide
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Depression paralysis example makes me think that palliation & gambling http://theviewfromhell.blogspot.com/2011/11/blind-to-downside.html … aren't cheating Selfish Gene, but succumbing.
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@sarahdoingthing I think the author has misunderstood the application of evolutionary theory and is setting off on the wrong foot. -
@sarahdoingthing "common psychiatric disorders must have their origins in natural selection" this is just wrong. It over generalises. - View other replies
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@sarahdoingthing I can't get what I'm thinking into tweets. But the whole of the article intro screams "WRONG" to me. -
@Jayarava it's a model I'm still wrapping my head around, for sure! -
@sarahdoingthing But the idea that everything that exists now has an evolutionary advantage is simply wrong. - Show more
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@sarahdoingthing Hypothesis: depression is a form of "inclusive fitness" for people who realize they are burdens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQsINSWJ4XY … -
@FBroi yup that fits nicely with it being a linear function of age (in men) and correlating to markers of burdensomeness/failed belonging
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Jayarava जयरव 勝鳴
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