Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry
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Why do mental disorders exist at all? Why are there so many? Why are they so common? Natural selection could have eliminated anxiety, depression, addiction, anorexia, and the genes that cause autism, schizophrenia, and manic-depressive illness. But it didn’t. Why not?
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They found that mood is influenced most not by success or failure but by rate of progress toward a goal.
Abhinav Gupta
Great quote
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Selection shaped our brains and bodies to maximize reproduction at enormous costs to human happiness.
Abhinav Gupta
Very interesting thought