Found a paper that explains mental disorders as the consequence of evolutionary trade-offs where you extremely exaggerating one of the Big Five personality aspects which DOES boosts fitness in some niches but at the cost of severely impairing others.
@nosilverv Pathologized FIGHT response: narcissism, histrionic, anger management Pathologized FLIGHT response: OCD, anxiety, hikikomori Pathologized FREEZE response: depression, dissociation, bedrot Pathologized FAWN response: BPD, dissociative identity, Stockholm syndrome
@nosilverv Maladaptions be real. Flexibility and adaptability wins yet again. Funny that being able to wiggle your personality expression maybe even 20% could be more useful than having it stuck at 80% in some niche category.
@nosilverv There’s a whole book on this named Evolutionary Psychopathology. Kinda thick but a good read nonetheless.
@nosilverv cool analysis but the diagrams are very confusing.
@nosilverv @algekalipso reminds me of the node diagrams with attractor-based personality structures
@nosilverv It’s a great explanation for depression. Sometimes your environment actually doesn’t have opportunities so don’t try. Especially in winter.
@nosilverv @ChrischipMonk Super interesting, insightful. It’s coherent to what I see in my clients and general experience.
@nosilverv you could do some quality verboten race discourse with this framework
@nosilverv really helpful, thanks for posting
@nosilverv @ChrischipMonk Super cool how'd you even find this
@nosilverv Seems probably true.
@nosilverv Yeah. Symptoms are adaptations.
@nosilverv my guesses 1) music autism 2) aspergers, train/chess autism 3) sociopathy 4) OCD