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Best EVOLUTIONARY explanation for DEPRESSION? Why only in some people?

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Misunderstood floppy new version principal's office
  05/15/24
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Misunderstood floppy new version principal's office
  05/15/24
you are better off staying put than taking risks and losing ...
Pale rambunctious pisswyrm
  05/15/24
Why is depression increasing? Shouldn't our biology recogni...
Misunderstood floppy new version principal's office
  05/15/24
For one thing it’s identified more often that’s ...
Pale rambunctious pisswyrm
  05/15/24
it isn't, we just got whiny and spoiled people at higher ri...
diverse point
  05/15/24
lmao kike
big mischievous base
  05/15/24
That’s the conclusion of compelling studies.
Pale rambunctious pisswyrm
  05/15/24
depressive realism, correlates insanely with high iq, why wo...
diverse point
  05/15/24
Is it actually true that depression increases with high iq? ...
Misunderstood floppy new version principal's office
  05/15/24
what data?
diverse point
  05/15/24
The gay kike ones
Dark crackhouse personal credit line
  05/15/24
given that 60% of all psych research is proven to be total f...
diverse point
  05/15/24
Selection bias?
Fear-inspiring Laser Beams State
  05/15/24
what selection?
diverse point
  05/15/24
See above
Pale rambunctious pisswyrm
  05/15/24
I'm not sure I see what you're getting at
diverse point
  05/15/24
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Misunderstood floppy new version principal's office
  05/16/24
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big mischievous base
  05/15/24
There’s more isolation and that is a contributing fact...
Pale rambunctious pisswyrm
  05/15/24
high iq people are actually less neurotic than average, whic...
Multi-colored love of her life digit ratio
  05/17/24
Low baseline dopamine levels make you more prone to depressi...
Pearly provocative national security agency
  05/15/24
no idea if this is true but I have always noticed that under...
diverse point
  05/15/24
It's completely true and is in fact The Science on this matt...
Pearly provocative national security agency
  05/15/24
I suppose I was made for another age
diverse point
  05/15/24
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Misunderstood floppy new version principal's office
  05/17/24
Lack of meaningful social bonds.
Fighting Chartreuse Toaster
  05/15/24
depression just means you're not fucking top-tier pussy, it'...
Pearl preventive strike
  05/15/24
complaining about shit is an extremely useful skill
big mischievous base
  05/15/24
(woman)
diverse point
  05/15/24
Humans are deeply social. Our brains turned grunting and scr...
laughsome field
  05/16/24
The very concept of "depression" is modern and Ang...
Painfully Honest Carnelian Reading Party
  05/16/24
Good for chilling inside all winter
Heady Frozen Queen Of The Night Garrison
  05/16/24
People have all sorts of dysfunctions that are clearly not a...
Tripping stage
  05/16/24
80 IQ is sufficient to find food and shelter, reproduce, and...
laughsome field
  05/16/24
I mean in the sense of being able to acquire multiple mates ...
Tripping stage
  05/16/24
I can imagine the benefit of a higher activation threshold t...
Titillating Trust Fund Tank
  05/17/24
removes bad genes from gene pool
mind-boggling affirmative action market
  05/17/24
As a depressed person, it pains me I have to agree
Exciting institution
  05/17/24
most mental illness is probably due to genetic load genet...
Multi-colored love of her life digit ratio
  05/17/24
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Pearly provocative national security agency
  05/17/24
It’s usury
big mischievous base
  05/17/24


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Date: May 15th, 2024 3:54 AM
Author: Misunderstood floppy new version principal's office



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5528674&forum_id=2#47662613)



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Date: May 15th, 2024 1:02 PM
Author: Misunderstood floppy new version principal's office



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5528674&forum_id=2#47663744)



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Date: May 15th, 2024 1:03 PM
Author: Pale rambunctious pisswyrm

you are better off staying put than taking risks and losing what you have.

needed for long winters in europe. depression correlates with neanderthal genes

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5528674&forum_id=2#47663748)



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Date: May 15th, 2024 9:21 PM
Author: Misunderstood floppy new version principal's office

Why is depression increasing? Shouldn't our biology recognize that starvation is less common today?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5528674&forum_id=2#47665568)



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Date: May 15th, 2024 9:31 PM
Author: Pale rambunctious pisswyrm

For one thing it’s identified more often that’s all

For another perhaps social factors of isolation and social intransigence play a role. Huge economic disparities between top 1 percent and the rest plays a role also at least according to studies. This last is highly distressing apparently.

What that last means for politics and social structuring after everyone reaches a baseline affluence remains to be seen but can be guessed at for sure.

I’m giving you a high iq answer but that won’t be recognized even here.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5528674&forum_id=2#47665608)



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Date: May 15th, 2024 9:32 PM
Author: diverse point

it isn't, we just got whiny and spoiled

people at higher risk of starvation probably have lower rates of depression

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5528674&forum_id=2#47665618)



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Date: May 15th, 2024 9:43 PM
Author: big mischievous base

lmao kike

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5528674&forum_id=2#47665653)



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Date: May 15th, 2024 9:44 PM
Author: Pale rambunctious pisswyrm

That’s the conclusion of compelling studies.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5528674&forum_id=2#47665663)



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Date: May 15th, 2024 9:21 PM
Author: diverse point

depressive realism, correlates insanely with high iq, why wouldn't it persist in some percentage of the population?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5528674&forum_id=2#47665570)



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Date: May 15th, 2024 9:24 PM
Author: Misunderstood floppy new version principal's office

Is it actually true that depression increases with high iq? I've always thought that data suggests the opposite.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5528674&forum_id=2#47665582)



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Date: May 15th, 2024 9:25 PM
Author: diverse point

what data?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5528674&forum_id=2#47665585)



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Date: May 15th, 2024 9:26 PM
Author: Dark crackhouse personal credit line

The gay kike ones

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5528674&forum_id=2#47665590)



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Date: May 15th, 2024 9:28 PM
Author: diverse point

given that 60% of all psych research is proven to be total fraud I doubt very seriously that any such data has ever been collected in any meaningful way, meanwhile anyone can notice that basically all of our geniuses and great artists etc are prone to depression

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5528674&forum_id=2#47665598)



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Date: May 15th, 2024 9:32 PM
Author: Fear-inspiring Laser Beams State

Selection bias?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5528674&forum_id=2#47665616)



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Date: May 15th, 2024 9:33 PM
Author: diverse point

what selection?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5528674&forum_id=2#47665621)



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Date: May 15th, 2024 9:41 PM
Author: Pale rambunctious pisswyrm

See above

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5528674&forum_id=2#47665646)



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Date: May 15th, 2024 9:43 PM
Author: diverse point

I'm not sure I see what you're getting at

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5528674&forum_id=2#47665656)



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Date: May 16th, 2024 8:15 PM
Author: Misunderstood floppy new version principal's office



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5528674&forum_id=2#47668615)



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Date: May 15th, 2024 9:33 PM
Author: big mischievous base



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5528674&forum_id=2#47665620)



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Date: May 15th, 2024 9:31 PM
Author: Pale rambunctious pisswyrm

There’s more isolation and that is a contributing factor.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5528674&forum_id=2#47665611)



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Date: May 17th, 2024 1:12 PM
Author: Multi-colored love of her life digit ratio

high iq people are actually less neurotic than average, which would suggest they aren't more depressed than average

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5528674&forum_id=2#47669670)



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Date: May 15th, 2024 9:33 PM
Author: Pearly provocative national security agency

Low baseline dopamine levels make you more prone to depression in peacetime but massively more resistant to stress under pressure in wartime

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5528674&forum_id=2#47665622)



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Date: May 15th, 2024 9:35 PM
Author: diverse point

no idea if this is true but I have always noticed that under true physical threat I do not really experience fear, just sitting I am terrified of the nothingness of the universe unceasingly, but I hold up very well to immediate danger

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5528674&forum_id=2#47665627)



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Date: May 15th, 2024 9:37 PM
Author: Pearly provocative national security agency

It's completely true and is in fact The Science on this matter

Google COMT gene dopamine. Not the only gene that moderates dopamine levels but one of the best understood

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5528674&forum_id=2#47665632)



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Date: May 15th, 2024 9:38 PM
Author: diverse point

I suppose I was made for another age

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5528674&forum_id=2#47665638)



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Date: May 17th, 2024 11:50 AM
Author: Misunderstood floppy new version principal's office



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5528674&forum_id=2#47669520)



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Date: May 15th, 2024 9:35 PM
Author: Fighting Chartreuse Toaster

Lack of meaningful social bonds.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5528674&forum_id=2#47665629)



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Date: May 15th, 2024 9:39 PM
Author: Pearl preventive strike

depression just means you're not fucking top-tier pussy, it's not a real thing

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5528674&forum_id=2#47665642)



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Date: May 15th, 2024 9:40 PM
Author: big mischievous base

complaining about shit is an extremely useful skill

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5528674&forum_id=2#47665644)



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Date: May 15th, 2024 9:43 PM
Author: diverse point

(woman)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5528674&forum_id=2#47665657)



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Date: May 16th, 2024 12:00 AM
Author: laughsome field

Humans are deeply social. Our brains turned grunting and scratching lines into enormously complex language so we could coordinate group behavior.

Within a group you can specialize in roles that enable group survival. Depressed guy has a role to play even if he does not gather as much food or father as many children. He still passes on genes either by randomly fathering the occasional kid or helping the group that includes less depressed relatives who still carry some of the same genes (either recessive or expressed differently based on mix or experience). Also playing that role keeps depression in check so you are realistic guy who shoots down bad ideas and doesn’t waste energy on fruitless tasks and get overexcited about everything, not suicidal guy who stays in bed all day (no one would feed or protect that guy and he’d be dead in a month).

Modernity has systematically severed group ties and enabled a bunch of maladaptive spiraling behavior while preserving a safety net so depressed people don’t rapidly starve. Hence you see a surplus of depressed people manifesting worse symptoms for longer and not playing their original role in the group (because they are mostly isolated from groups).

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5528674&forum_id=2#47666040)



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Date: May 16th, 2024 12:02 AM
Author: Painfully Honest Carnelian Reading Party

The very concept of "depression" is modern and Anglo and created by Jews to take money from Goys via "anti depressent drugs" and "therapy"

If you read any eastern Religions this becomes obvious. Being up and down is a normal part of the human pysche. Goys use to understand this too and deal with it like men but now everyone has been brainwashed by Jews that its wrong to feel down. Then you feel ashamed of being depressed and that just makes you more depresssed. Buddhism talks abt this.

You freaks are so indoctrinated by Jews though you never will figure this out. All your "medicines" and therapy are just making shit worse, you can't fix shit without proper mental outlook and changing your stupid isolated Jew society.

In short, Jew Jew Jew Jew Jew

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5528674&forum_id=2#47666043)



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Date: May 16th, 2024 12:04 AM
Author: Heady Frozen Queen Of The Night Garrison

Good for chilling inside all winter

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5528674&forum_id=2#47666045)



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Date: May 16th, 2024 12:14 AM
Author: Tripping stage

People have all sorts of dysfunctions that are clearly not adaptive. Schizophrenia isn’t adaptive. Having an 80 IQ isn’t adaptive (at least for most of human history). Being a homo isn’t adaptive. Evolution can only weed out dysfunctional mutations at a certain rate and is constrained by organism complexity. Depression could easily arise out of a normal psychological response to social stress that goes haywire in certain people.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5528674&forum_id=2#47666060)



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Date: May 16th, 2024 12:24 AM
Author: laughsome field

80 IQ is sufficient to find food and shelter, reproduce, and fight opponents effectively. Extra IQ points lead to more stuff and things higher up the hierarchy of needs, but that’s not necessarily “adaptive” unless you’re redefining adaptive to mean able to compose music or draft a tight purchase agreement rather than what most people mean which is survive and reproduce.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5528674&forum_id=2#47666071)



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Date: May 16th, 2024 1:12 AM
Author: Tripping stage

I mean in the sense of being able to acquire multiple mates and provide for offspring. Even in hunter-gatherers, there was clearly an evolutionary push for better cognition in more complex environments (hence all the people who live in equatorial areas being retarded). I don’t think being that stupid would have been to anyone’s advantage for most of human history and certainly not as society become more complex and permitted more elaborate hierarchies that would require competency to ascend. There’s only so much evolution can do though given that the brain is highly polygenic and there are many ways for things to go wrong.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5528674&forum_id=2#47666088)



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Date: May 17th, 2024 11:56 AM
Author: Titillating Trust Fund Tank

I can imagine the benefit of a higher activation threshold that only gets lowered in a crisis. The sigma depressed chad who broods in his cave until all the other males die in a mammoth hunt gone wrong and inherits all of the tribe's women as his personal harem

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5528674&forum_id=2#47669536)



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Date: May 17th, 2024 12:27 PM
Author: mind-boggling affirmative action market

removes bad genes from gene pool

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5528674&forum_id=2#47669588)



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Date: May 17th, 2024 1:12 PM
Author: Exciting institution

As a depressed person, it pains me I have to agree

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5528674&forum_id=2#47669673)



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Date: May 17th, 2024 1:13 PM
Author: Multi-colored love of her life digit ratio

most mental illness is probably due to genetic load

genetic load is increasing because everyone makes it through childhood and we have dysgenic reproduction

hth

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5528674&forum_id=2#47669677)



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Date: May 17th, 2024 1:16 PM
Author: Pearly provocative national security agency



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5528674&forum_id=2#47669686)



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Date: May 17th, 2024 2:24 PM
Author: big mischievous base

It’s usury

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5528674&forum_id=2#47669746)