This is very interesting because depression is an exaggerated manifestation of a stress response.

A fourth theory is that depression is a byproduct of another genetic selection. A paper from 2013 reported that some of the gene variants that infer a higher risk for depression also affect the immune system. For example, a variant in the gene NPY raises a person’s risk for developing depression via the stress response, but it also enhances the immune system’s inflammatory response that enables it to fight off infections more effectively. As a result, a person with the NPY variant would be more likely to survive and pass on their genes d…
Did your brain evolve to be depressed?
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Mike Murray
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Apr 24, 2021
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This is very interesting because depression is an exaggerated manifestation of a stress response. Our evolved ability to conceptualize combined with our evolutionarily conserved stress response allows us to create marvelous stories about what we perceive as being wrong with our lives. Depression seems to take this several steps further.
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