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How Depression Could Save Your Life
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No one likes to be down but a new book, The Depths, argues that depression has real and helpful evolutionary benefits for humans and animals. But have the harms grown worse in modern society?
Nick Romeo
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Mar. 4 2014
9:26AM EST
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