“But in the mood d1sorders, uni- and bipolar, we see a return to more primitive, primary process ruminating without the loss of adult cognitive rules. Major depression is a return to a primitive hibernation state without the wholesale collapse in logical processes that we see in schizophrenia. It shifts the usual thought pattern from secondary to primary process thinking, the embattled autopilot of the past six million years or so. If happiness is a modern invention, depressives return to the affective state of the hibernating cave dweller. Mania, on the other hand, is a desperate flight from dreaded depression and encapsulates the level of primitivity imposed by it.” MindEvolutionCivilizationSchizophreniaEvolutionary PsychopathologySavage Book:Footprints of Schizophrenia: The Evolutionary Roots of Mental Illness Source: Footprints of Schizophrenia: The Evolutionary Roots of Mental Illness
“We are no longer in that primitive state of mind. We have an expectation of survival and have conquered most of the obvious predators that plagued us day to day with our superlative contemplation skills born of language. We sit in our comfy heated houses while the snow flutters like butterflies around us and we bask in a feeling of general contentment.” MindPsychologyEvolutionBehaviorDopamineEvolutionary Psychopathology Book:Footprints of Schizophrenia: The Evolutionary Roots of Mental Illness Source: Footprints of Schizophrenia: The Evolutionary Roots of Mental Illness