Re:Anxiety and Depression Are Symptoms, Not Diseases
by Terr_ on Tuesday March 29, 2016 @03:32AM
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Just thinking out loud here: What about allergies?
In that model, what you need to fix is not to remove the trigger (e.g. the pollen may be safe) nor to inhibit the ability to respond (sometimes you need a big immune reaction) but instead to focus on whatever's gone awry with the fiddly logic in the middle that normally regulates frequency/severity/duration.
If that were the case, then the "depression reaction" might be a useful adaptation... but for some people it's occuring disproportionately.
In that model, what you need to fix is not to remove the trigger (e.g. the pollen may be safe) nor to inhibit the ability to respond (sometimes you need a big immune reaction) but instead to focus on whatever's gone awry with the fiddly logic in the middle that normally regulates frequency/severity/duration.
If that were the case, then the "depression reaction" might be a useful adaptation... but for some people it's occuring disproportionately.