It’s unthinkable – especially to a depressed person – that depression might actually be there to “protect” us. But that is exactly what my research suggests. Again, we must consider that, just as dominance and submission exist in us for a reason, something now as common as severe depression must also be serving some “protective” or “adaptive” function.
Well, here is the key: Inside of our instinctive capacity to submit lies the source of depression.
Depression is, in reality, our brain’s instinctive attempt to submit – and to thereby “survive”. But what is it trying to submit to? My research is clear – it is trying to submit to the psychological threats we create in our minds.