A question from a scientific point of view. Can depression be a form of evolution. If you survive it within your life, either through incremental or sudden PTSD moments or maybe possible both. Does that make your personal evolutionary memory mindset stronger or weaker over time with the experienced depression. Eventually moving on getting stronger or giving into the dark side. This in one way makes you qualified or maybe not for reproduction as a physical qualification.<br>Having experienced depression before and after having children which most ordinary people do, but now looking back, It appears before children, it was a much more vulnerable time of possibly going down the dark road. Now knowing then there wasn't as much to live for.<br>Case in point, most parents either get divorced or just don't not want to live anymore after losing children.<br>Evolutionary traits for survival? Maybe..<br><br>Although, now looking back into the past with experiancing depression in a positive evolutionary way.<br>It has generated more compassion as a human. I guess its the Ying and the yang of nature.