The Evolutionary Psychology Of Anxiety & Depression - Ed Hagen | Modern Wisdom 632

Ed Hagen is an evolutionary anthropologist, Professor at Washington State University, a researcher and an author.

Low mood, depression and anxiety are states we will all become familiar with at some point in our lives. But why did evolution create a creature that is able to contemplate so much complexity that sometimes it suffers psychologically? Why are we wired to feel this way and how are we able to pull ourselves out?

Expect to learn the evolutionary reason why humans get depressed, how postpartum depression is adaptive, why being strong can lower your chances of depression, how evolutionary theory can improve all of medicine, why women are so much more depressed on average than men, why humans are even capable of suicide and much more...

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00:00 Intro
00:38 Why Has Depression Survived Evolution?
05:42 Explaining Depressive Symptoms
15:00 The Sex Difference in Depression
19:23 Can You Become Less Depressed by Becoming Stronger?
23:30 Why Men Commit Suicide More Than Women
29:41 Why Natural Selection Hasn’t Made Suicide Impossible
35:14 Age as a Factor in Suicide Statistics
41:06 The Cause of Post-Partum Depression
47:31 Is Evolutionary Psychology Racist?
53:38 Critiques of Evolutionary Psychology
56:28 Music’s Role in Evolution
1:02:50 Where to Find Ed

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