/sci/ - Science & Math

How many of you have been diagnosed with depression?
How do you manage a negative perspective when evaluating your academic/professional life without becoming unrealistic/overly optimistic?

>there's no such thing as chemical imbalance in a body
Do you agree with that notion?

How much dumber does depression make you? And is the damage reversible?
>Tfw got 138 on mensa.no online test 1 day beforing deciding to kms
>Tfw got me motivated to actually start getting my shit together

What does your stack look like? Is it working well? Here's mine that I am introducing:

>ashwagandha
>rhodiola rosea
>bacopa monnieri
>ALCAR
>alpha-gpc
>creatine

Why did humans evolve to get depressed when things are going badly?

>>7112651
>Not everyone has an aversion to death. There are people who outright kill themselves out of an aversion to life.

Depression and suicidal tendency is a very crippling physical condition, as well as mental. Pic related. It's an illness.

>Even not going that far, how can you explain people that risk their lives, even when they don't gain anything from it?

People stick their neck out for one of two common reasons: 1) they are paid to do it, (emergency services etc) and 2) to save someone they love. Money and love enhance one's living, the very thing that keeps our mind off of death, so when you are threatened to lose either, you will take a risk to maintain your enriched life.

Of course, there are exceptions to this rule. I'm sure someone has risked their life for a stranger without recompense. In which case, I can only guess that they are so in-tune and social and extroverted that they value other lives under the impression that the stranger they rescue/save is valuable to their own life.

Either that, or this aversion of death is so strong that man will be willing to avert it by proxy, that is to say, we are so hung-up on dying that we would gladly save another to prevent death from happening, because like I've said, we're scared shitless of it.

This is of course, only my speculation. And it's the only rational explanation that adheres to a material/physical law rather than a religious one.