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

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Clear Lascivious Newt
  05/15/24
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Clear Lascivious Newt
  05/15/24
you are better off staying put than taking risks and losing ...
Irradiated Impressive International Law Enforcement Agency
  05/15/24
Why is depression increasing? Shouldn't our biology recogni...
Clear Lascivious Newt
  05/15/24
For one thing it’s identified more often that’s ...
Irradiated Impressive International Law Enforcement Agency
  05/15/24
it isn't, we just got whiny and spoiled people at higher ri...
deranged home haunted graveyard
  05/15/24
lmao kike
Topaz Fragrant Center
  05/15/24
That’s the conclusion of compelling studies.
Irradiated Impressive International Law Enforcement Agency
  05/15/24
depressive realism, correlates insanely with high iq, why wo...
deranged home haunted graveyard
  05/15/24
Is it actually true that depression increases with high iq? ...
Clear Lascivious Newt
  05/15/24
what data?
deranged home haunted graveyard
  05/15/24
The gay kike ones
Fighting Cuckoldry
  05/15/24
given that 60% of all psych research is proven to be total f...
deranged home haunted graveyard
  05/15/24
Selection bias?
gay gas station dragon
  05/15/24
what selection?
deranged home haunted graveyard
  05/15/24
See above
Irradiated Impressive International Law Enforcement Agency
  05/15/24
I'm not sure I see what you're getting at
deranged home haunted graveyard
  05/15/24
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Clear Lascivious Newt
  05/16/24
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Topaz Fragrant Center
  05/15/24
There’s more isolation and that is a contributing fact...
Irradiated Impressive International Law Enforcement Agency
  05/15/24
high iq people are actually less neurotic than average, whic...
razzle dopamine
  05/17/24
Low baseline dopamine levels make you more prone to depressi...
light personal credit line messiness
  05/15/24
no idea if this is true but I have always noticed that under...
deranged home haunted graveyard
  05/15/24
It's completely true and is in fact The Science on this matt...
light personal credit line messiness
  05/15/24
I suppose I was made for another age
deranged home haunted graveyard
  05/15/24
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Clear Lascivious Newt
  05/17/24
Lack of meaningful social bonds.
Spectacular affirmative action
  05/15/24
depression just means you're not fucking top-tier pussy, it'...
beady-eyed site
  05/15/24
complaining about shit is an extremely useful skill
Topaz Fragrant Center
  05/15/24
(woman)
deranged home haunted graveyard
  05/15/24
Humans are deeply social. Our brains turned grunting and scr...
Bearded cordovan plaza
  05/16/24
The very concept of "depression" is modern and Ang...
boyish rambunctious kitchen quadroon
  05/16/24
Good for chilling inside all winter
supple stag film mad-dog skullcap
  05/16/24
People have all sorts of dysfunctions that are clearly not a...
mentally impaired lodge
  05/16/24
80 IQ is sufficient to find food and shelter, reproduce, and...
Bearded cordovan plaza
  05/16/24
I mean in the sense of being able to acquire multiple mates ...
mentally impaired lodge
  05/16/24
I can imagine the benefit of a higher activation threshold t...
transparent electric trailer park psychic
  05/17/24
removes bad genes from gene pool
vermilion partner
  05/17/24
As a depressed person, it pains me I have to agree
burgundy sick rehab
  05/17/24
most mental illness is probably due to genetic load genet...
razzle dopamine
  05/17/24
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light personal credit line messiness
  05/17/24
It’s usury
Topaz Fragrant Center
  05/17/24


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Date: May 15th, 2024 3:54 AM
Author: Clear Lascivious Newt



(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: Clear Lascivious Newt



(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: Irradiated Impressive International Law Enforcement Agency

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: Clear Lascivious Newt

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: Irradiated Impressive International Law Enforcement Agency

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: deranged home haunted graveyard

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: Topaz Fragrant Center

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: Irradiated Impressive International Law Enforcement Agency

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: deranged home haunted graveyard

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: Clear Lascivious Newt

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: deranged home haunted graveyard

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: Fighting Cuckoldry

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: deranged home haunted graveyard

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: gay gas station dragon

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: deranged home haunted graveyard

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: Irradiated Impressive International Law Enforcement Agency

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: deranged home haunted graveyard

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: Clear Lascivious Newt



(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: Topaz Fragrant Center



(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: Irradiated Impressive International Law Enforcement Agency

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: razzle dopamine

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: light personal credit line messiness

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: deranged home haunted graveyard

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: light personal credit line messiness

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: deranged home haunted graveyard

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: Clear Lascivious Newt



(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: Spectacular affirmative action

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: beady-eyed site

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: Topaz Fragrant Center

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: deranged home haunted graveyard

(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: Bearded cordovan plaza

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: boyish rambunctious kitchen quadroon

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: supple stag film mad-dog skullcap

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: mentally impaired lodge

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: Bearded cordovan plaza

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: mentally impaired lodge

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: transparent electric trailer park psychic

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: vermilion partner

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: burgundy sick rehab

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: razzle dopamine

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: light personal credit line messiness



(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: Topaz Fragrant Center

It’s usury

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