Depression

I think depression is more a manifestation of lesser used instincts perhaps, and while humans were not built for isolation, we are capable of learning to cope with it and understand it, and ultimatley use it to benefit (not to say it was common) but i do not think its true of any animal that it wholly succumbs to its own death in the event of social seperation, but, i suppose no other animal is quite as social as humans. And i think if it were true that suicidal ideation and depression were stemmed from this, it would be far more solvable and be far less uniquely difficult to deal with, depression and sucidial ideation tend to find their roots in far more than social isolation and sociality as a whole.

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There’s a new theory that depression is caused by a lack of sufficient neural connections between the emotional part of our brain and the logical part. Which would mean that it’s running more instinctual behaviour rather than logical behaviour, meaning it’s harder to overcome and solve. With clinical depression much like many other mental disorders its extremely typical for them to originate genetically. But the theory that neural connections play a role is consistent with some other theories surrounding things like autism, where there are believed to be some physical causations of the condition, some neurological some based on other organs and bloodworks.

Its not wholly explaining of it but, there was an article i read sometime last year indicating certain proteins in the blood and alterations in the brain and other organs that developed in the womb that brought it on.