Depressed people are not better at creativity, pattern-recognition, or anything. Depression is torture. Shows that evolution isn’t always for the better. But if some people enjoy mental illness then I guess that’s fine for them.
A brilliant friend once described mental illnesses as evolutionary attempts at greater perception/processing — better creativity, pattern-recognition, risk management, etc. — and that has forever changed my perspective for the better.https://twitter.com/primalpoly/status/1073996821997879296 …
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Mild-to-moderate depression *may* introduce new cognitive distortions while simultaneously reducing certain others —see "depressive realism." (But my claim here is not that mental illnesses are "good" or enjoyable. They're dysfunctional by definition.)
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Shouldn't be pushing this
but @webdevMason &@primalpoly reminded me of the high IQ / genetic diseases trade-off part of this: http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/26/the-atomic-bomb-considered-as-hungarian-high-school-science-fair-project/ … - when SA discusses Ashkenazi Jews .... -
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Reminds me of this excellent episode of
@Rspodcast http://rationallyspeakingpodcast.org/show/rs99-judith-schlesinger-exposes-the-myth-of-the-mad-genius.html … Back when good ol'@mpigliucci was still around. -
Good 'ol Pigliucci *is* still around, just doing other things... ;-)
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if you take this position, the notion of creating large buckets with semi-descriptive labels (e.g. bipolar) becomes ridiculous and destructive, especially if you're "diagnosed" as a child
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That's awesome, I talk about this often, current science, ironically, doesn't normally consider or appreciate possible evolutionary mental furtherance. The challenge to their 'standards' or basis of thought is too uncomfortable (?).
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Like Carl Jung helped release the mentality disabled from prison, he was on to something.. There can't only be 'normal' and 'disabled' or 'gifted' then 'genius'. We can't imagine they all function the same as acceptable.
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This is entirely correct, at least anecdotally from first hand xp talking at length to a very close relative. What is being diagnosed is superficially correct but the implications others draw are often the exact opposite of what's actually going on. Also, society didn't help.
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People thought I was indulging his fantasies & discouraged conversation, but his view of the world is pretty incisive (esp application of power), given childhood & societies he grew up in. He just.. started believing too much in the metaphors he built for a cruel world I guess.
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