What is the biological purpose for depression?

Does it have a survival function? Is depression useful in some way?

Depression could only be useful were one to subscribe to the concept of nuclear evolution, meaning that particular atoms that make up the molecules of biological tissue and biological process electrolytes (sodium, potassium, etc…) actually evolve in some particular way to meet an external social or environmental demand. Depression is well defined and well understood today as having an underlying cause from a deficit of particular neurotransmitters in specific regions of the brain, or impaired physiological sites where these neurotransmitters are normally manufactured. Our emotions, like our thoughts and our abilities to store information in memory, are chemical in nature. An imbalance in one’s brain chemistry is why we have disorders like mainc-depression, severe clinical depression, schizophrenia, even possibly in some cases impotence. So if you believe that chlorine atoms and potassiom ions have adapted over time to find another “use” – as if they had an intention to begin with after being spun from the gaseuos hydrogen and helium that were present in the universe’s infancy – then, sure, maybe there is some usefulness to be discovered with depression. If on the other hand, you believe that the electrolytes that catalyze neuronic processes by giving the electrons in our brains network a path to take are just electrolytes that exist without purpose, without meaning, without intention or direction – then the idea of useful depression can’t be validated.

Carbon is carbon is carbon is carbon today as was carbon of the past. Likewise for depression. It’s just a condition that is the result of some abnormal chemistry.

I’m trying, by the way, to stop laughing at the last guy’s theory that we aren’t supposed to spend too much time depressed…I didn’t realize there were time limits on physiology. Didn’t they know this theory in the 1700s?? I wonder…give me a break.

Depression Survival Kit

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