Much in line with Thomas Hartmann’s inspirational book ADD: A Different Perception, in the January/February 2010 edition of Scientific American Mind Paul W Andrews and J Anderson Thomson, Jr put forth the notion that depression is the result of millions of years of evolution…and can actually be quite beneficial to us.

The theory goes: depression causes us to focus on nothing but our difficulties – the brain activates in such a way that we cannot be distracted by outside stimuli, we lose interest in our normal distracting pleasures and we retreat into isolation…all things that are conducive to problem-solving. Read More→