Depression

if we could just put a big fucking neon sign up that says: "I'm not interacting right now so don't infer anything from my existence" - how fucking cool would that be?

Many functions have been suggested for low mood or depression, including communicating a need for help, signaling yielding in a hierarchy conflict, fostering disengagement from commitments to unreachable goals, and regulating patterns of investment. A more comprehensive evolutionary explanation may emerge from attempts to identify how the character... See more