However even then I don’t think it was entirely unreason because there was a logic to what I was doing if you took my voices into account. In other words I may have appeared irrational to an outsider looking in but in my own mind I was being very logical. It was just that my internal logic took into account what my voices were saying and I was acting in concert with the delusions that arose from these voices.

If other people could hear what my voices were saying then they too would have concluded that I was acting rationally.

I do know people who do exactly what you say and I think my “madness” was probably a different version of the same thing.

Severe depression does certainly harm reproductive fitness, especially over hundreds of generations. For one, there is a much higher than average suicide rate, not to mention detrimental effects on ability to thrive, mating success, child rearing, and so on.

Does this make sense?

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Neel

Not entirely convinced about the evolutionary advantage of depression however. I can see it in the case of schizophrenia which has a more serious effect on reproduction ie Why is it still here?

However people who get depressed are not considered to be re-productively disadvantaged are they? So there is no real reason why the genes won’t be passed on is there? Just trying to understand this.

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