In this newsletter, I’m describing what Evolutionary Psychology has to say about depression, through EP’s basic question of, “How did depression help humans survive in evolutionary times?” Depression is so often described as if it had no roots, or was a meaningless distortion of neurochemistry, or worse, a character flaw. It is none of those. Rather, it has a deep history back to our ape ancestors, and an application even in today’s time that bears understanding and incorporation into our maps of what it is, and how to deal with it.
But in the present, I hope your summers are going well, with the right amount of comfort to keep you from being overwhelmed, and the ideal amount of challenge to keep you growing.