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Re:Experimental depression treatment is nearly 80% effective... by webinvest on Friday December 31, 2021 @07:33PM (#29754118)
Unfortunately your genes don’t care about whether you’re happy or not beyond your gene’s needs for survival and reproduction.
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Re:Experimental depression treatment is nearly 80% effective... by eru on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @11:20PM (#29805088)
Yes. And given the prevalence of continued prevalence of depression, there might be some evolutionary benefit for the genes that also cause depression.

No clue whether it's the depression itself, or whether that's just a side-effect of something else that's useful.

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