Ah yes, yet another occurence of adaptationists trying to shoehorn literally every single trait into their framework. It's basically intelligent design that doesn't say its name.
Anxiety, depression, and PTSD may be adaptive responses to adversity: study
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#82> If ADHD is not a disorder, but a mismatch with a human environment, then suddenly it’s not a medical issue. It’s an issue for educational reform. And that is a compelling thought, given the evidence that kids’ focus and cognition are improved by physical activity. Still, we need to take this study with a grain of salt. There is a large body of research showing other biological factors when it comes to ADHD. For ins…
>So speaking as someone with adult ADHD who is getting by without medication with the right lifestyle choices
How do you do it exactly? Without ADHD medication I can't function on a basic level, and even then it's pretty hard. (Yes that's just ADHD, I tried every antidepressant and mood stabilizer under the sun for years before getting diagnosed with ADHD)
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#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you realize these two sentences say the same exact thing? You have a pain, which is a signal of a disorder, and you need to change something to fix it. "At first I viewed the depression I started fighting in my teens as a scourge, a defect, something broken to be fixed." "I have since come to see it as an important signal. When I am managing my life and mental states well, it often fades into the background. When…
No. One sees the depression as something to be fixed, the other sees the underlying problem causing the depression as something to be fixed.
Yeah, I agree. But the signal is still the disorder that needs to be fixed.
Any psychiatrist will tell you that psychiatric medications only treat the symptoms of mood disorders and that they do not know the cause of most of them. It is hogwash that they think mood disorders are "only chemical imbalances in the brain". They know these disorders are polygenic and environmental. But for some people, a short dose of SSRI's or antipsychotics can keep them alive long enough to find out what it is that is giving them so much pain, i mean singnals.
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#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
I remember reading an article like that. Also, it's a bit of a meme that if depression was 100% harmful then it would already be eliminated by evolution. I mean why shouldn't people prone to depression die off? Don't make a mistake, I'm still working on improving my life and uncovering the root causes. It is a silent thief of life.
The appendix is 100% harmful but not eliminated. As is nearsightedness. Evolution is only affected by genotypes that prevent reproduction.
> The appendix is 100% harmful
It is not.
Much better examples would be cancer and auto-immune diseases. Evolution is not magical, it can't produce 100% fault-free organisms. Or maybe it will, given a few more billion years. But in a limited time span, there is no reason to expect it to correct any potential flaw in an organism (and experience obviously shows that it hasn't).
Re: Anxiety, depression, and PTSD may be adaptive responses to adversity: study
#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
Largely because articles like this generally focus on what I think of as “layman’s depression”, or “layman’s anxiety.” That is, a mild form of the condition that straddles the gray area between “personality” and “mild personality disorder,” that diminishes quality of life in a perceptible but not devastating way. Then you go work on a psych floor and meet people whose depression is so severe it induces catatonia; peo…
How common is that extreme form of depression? Sounds like we need two different names for two very different diseases (or perhaps only one is actually a disease)
There are no diseases, only symptoms. We can name diseases forever but that gets us nowhere. They just have more depression, or are more depressed.
By the way, why don't people get SSRI's when they are depressed with a flu? I mean that is caused my lower serotonin as well. So for some reason we accept that depression because we have a reason for it?
https://www.inverse.com/article/40843-what-f-lu-do-es-t-o-yo...
You see, depression is fundamentally and immune disorder. We react negatively to something in the environment, like a bad job or marriage.
Re: Anxiety, depression, and PTSD may be adaptive responses to adversity: study
#86> If ADHD is not a disorder, but a mismatch with a human environment, then suddenly it’s not a medical issue. It’s an issue for educational reform. And that is a compelling thought, given the evidence that kids’ focus and cognition are improved by physical activity. Still, we need to take this study with a grain of salt. There is a large body of research showing other biological factors when it comes to ADHD. For ins…
Thank you, yes, I said the same thing in another reply. I am Bipolar getting by without meds. I do not have a disorder, I have a difference. So I need to live and eat differently.
Sorry but that attitude is extremely dangerous. Maybe you have a less severe case that's manageable without treatment but that's not the case for everyone. Mania states are actively brain damaging and can blow into full-on psychosis. There is no lifestyle change, diet or essential oil that's going to stop that from happening for folks with a severe bipolar disorder, which is absolutely a disease since it destroys your brain if left unchecked.
Spreading such misinformation can lead to people not seeking treatment and getting hurt. Your case is absolutely not the canonic case for people with bipolar disorder.
Re: Anxiety, depression, and PTSD may be adaptive responses to adversity: study
#87> If ADHD is not a disorder, but a mismatch with a human environment, then suddenly it’s not a medical issue. It’s an issue for educational reform. And that is a compelling thought, given the evidence that kids’ focus and cognition are improved by physical activity. Still, we need to take this study with a grain of salt. There is a large body of research showing other biological factors when it comes to ADHD. For ins…
>So speaking as someone with adult ADHD who is getting by without medication with the right lifestyle choices How do you do it exactly? Without ADHD medication I can't function on a basic level, and even then it's pretty hard. (Yes that's just ADHD, I tried every antidepressant and mood stabilizer under the sun for years before getting diagnosed with ADHD)
And this is what I hate about these article, they leave people out in the cold who are suffering.
Start with getting your genetics, your full genome if you can afford it. This is something that saved my life.
Could be something as simple as nutrients, like B6 (P5P): https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marnina_Stimmel/publica...
Re: Anxiety, depression, and PTSD may be adaptive responses to adversity: study
#88when these conditions persist after the adversity has passed, that's maladaptive.
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#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sorry man, the therapist can't prescribe. You are free to read "The body keeps the score" to understand why everything you wrote is wrong/false. To the downvoters: Things in life are in different levels. Your knee may hurt a little, you may tear 1 ACL in your knee, you tear all ligaments in your knee, your knee got chopped off, etc etc. Going to the doctor, doesn't 100% mean your knee will go into surgery. Sometimes,…
> everything you wrote is wrong/false. Well now, this is a bit too harsh. I presented my anecdote as such, not as some universal conclusion that applies to everybody and every life situation. > Going to the doctor, doesn't 100% mean your knee will go into surgery. You are right. I do however feel that psychiatry is not exactly as much of a science as other medical fields. I'm not convinced that what is considered a d…
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Re: Anxiety, depression, and PTSD may be adaptive responses to adversity: study
#90Anxiety is a disorder of the nervous system that is a by-product of civilization. We are one of the only mammals that gets anxiety, if you get anxiety in the wild you won't be alive much longer.
Depression and PTSD are not responses to adversity. If you face adversity and suffer depression or PTSD you were raised psychologically weak in a way that is dangerous to you.
There are people who have survived civil wars, drought and mass starvation all over the world that don't have these problems get out of your bubble.