Official Mental Health Thread

[Lucem Ferre]

Originally Posted by elphenor

another way that some experts are starting to look at things, albeit controversially, is that almost all the mental disorders come with an advantage as well as their obvious disadvantage

ADHD may, for example, make for a poor student in a public school environment

but they find that they're boss at video games, and things that require tracing multiple fast moving targets

Tesla sufferend from schizophrenia and severe OCD, and said that most of his most revolutionary ideas came to him in "visions", that is, psychotic episodes

Bipolar mania, baybeee.

[Psy-Fi]

Originally Posted by elphenor

another way that some experts are starting to look at things, albeit controversially, is that almost all the mental disorders come with an advantage as well as their obvious disadvantage

ADHD may, for example, make for a poor student in a public school environment

but they find that they're boss at video games, and things that require tracing multiple fast moving targets

Tesla sufferend from schizophrenia and severe OCD, and said that most of his most revolutionary ideas came to him in "visions", that is, psychotic episodes

[jwb]

[Stephen]

Originally Posted by elphenor

another way that some experts are starting to look at things, albeit controversially, is that almost all the mental disorders come with an advantage as well as their obvious disadvantage

The only feature a mental illness needs in order to persist in a species is promiscuity. I suppose obsessive features would help fit into religiosity which has periodically bottle-necked humanity’s evolution in mass genocides.

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by Stephen

The only feature a mental illness needs in order to persist in a species is promiscuity. I suppose obsessive features would help fit into religiosity which has periodically bottle-necked humanity’s evolution in mass genocides.

A trait doesn’t HAVE to be a genetic advantage to persist.

Also, only nature has bottle-necked human population. Religious wars and genocide and so on have never culled population to that degree.

[jwb]

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

A trait doesn’t HAVE to be a genetic advantage to persist

Yeh I think there are lots of traits that exist as sort of byproducts of other traits that were selected for

Evolution is far from the perfect engineer

[The Batlord]

Like why do we breath out of the same hole we eat with? Why is choking beneficial?

[WWWP]

And why are all of our vital organs so poorly defended

[jwb]

Civilization definitely threw a monkey wrench into human evolution. Not to mention the fact that it's happened in a very short time span by evolutionary terms.

But our behavior and traits are still largely produced via the evolution that has already occurred.

[jwb]

The social conditioning traces back to evolutionary incentives. Without evolution there would be no such thing as social relationships.