drethelin comments on Depression's evolutionary roots - Less Wrong Discussion
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Side effects: Our brains are machines that sometimes have very crude control mechanisms. Floods of certain neurotransmitters to enrage us, others to make us feel love and lust. The sort of chemical conditions necessary to encourage torpor and cautious behavior also make us "sad".