Friday, April 13, 2012
Some of our daily life revolves around compromise. There's the cost-benefit issue with medication for example, or the decision about whether to pay a little more for something, or those times we agree to do things in order to please someone else. I suspect few people have considered the role of depre...
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Jerry, this makes a lot of sense to me, especially when I think about how my depression probably started when I was a kid. I've figured out that it was a way for me to stay on alert and under the radar at the same time, make myself somewhat impervious to physical and emotional assault (although it didn't work perfectly!). My memories of being a child are mostly of no feelings, of being an observer of everyone else. So, yes, I do think it had its purpose. It's too bad that even though I can see it has outlived its usefulness, it still gets triggered over the same old things - it's like my brain and body won't turn it off.
Hi Judy,
Well, your last point about outliving its usefulness probably resonates with a lot of people. Interestingly, the authors of the study make exactly the same observations.