Mental Illness or an Adaptation?

The now traditional Western psychiatric response to depression, anxiety, and psychosis is medication. Medication can calm the mind and change the brain chemistry enough to give patients a shot at a “normal” life. Yet disorders come in all sorts of forms, are so global, that to believe in only one idea of what makes people ill or well means to ignore other influences.read more
Source: Psychology Today Depression Center - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tags: Depression Evolutionary Psychology Happiness adaptation medication mental illness schizophrenia stigma Source Type: news