What I Think
Posted: Mon May 02, 2016 2:40 pm
I've been considering this subject for a while and it's something I believe, at least, for right now:
I believe depression is the net result of a given human's instinctual pre-civilization drives fighting the demands of modern society.
Society demands that we behave in ways our ancestors never did. We've had, what?, a million total years to develop survival instincts that we have not needed for the last 1000...
Paranoia was once a useful survival tactic 100's of thousands of years ago. Being skitish and anxiety-filled. Now, it's a mental health issue. We are forced into group-think and "boxes" of modern design that are in conflict with our pre-modern neurology.
We don't understand the what and why's of these drives; they are transparent to us. All that we know is how we feel: depressed and anxious.
It seems like we can not evolve fast enough. But it begs the question: are we evolving in the best direction? The optimist in me can see a far future where our minds and brains have finally worked it all out; where we have adapted-out the useless anxieties and thus depression.
Does that leave us in battle with ourselves mean time? I believe if we are willing to work at it, no. But we must work at it.[/b]
I believe depression is the net result of a given human's instinctual pre-civilization drives fighting the demands of modern society.
Society demands that we behave in ways our ancestors never did. We've had, what?, a million total years to develop survival instincts that we have not needed for the last 1000...
Paranoia was once a useful survival tactic 100's of thousands of years ago. Being skitish and anxiety-filled. Now, it's a mental health issue. We are forced into group-think and "boxes" of modern design that are in conflict with our pre-modern neurology.
We don't understand the what and why's of these drives; they are transparent to us. All that we know is how we feel: depressed and anxious.
It seems like we can not evolve fast enough. But it begs the question: are we evolving in the best direction? The optimist in me can see a far future where our minds and brains have finally worked it all out; where we have adapted-out the useless anxieties and thus depression.
Does that leave us in battle with ourselves mean time? I believe if we are willing to work at it, no. But we must work at it.[/b]