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Depression and giving up unattainable goals

November 17, 2010 by kNOELedge 0 Comments

I found this article in The Economist. It suggests that depression has evolved to protect us from striving to reach the unreachable. Just as pain stops warns us to stop doing something that could be harmful, so depression does a similar thing. The hypothesis is that, as pain stops you doing damaging physical things, so low mood stops [...]

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