XPost: soc.support.depression.misc, sci.med.psychobiology   
      
      I was  thinking about how depression  might be a  vestigial urge to   
   hibernate.   Think of this:  you face  a number  of events  leading to   
   fight/flight urges which were impossible to execute. Hence you load up   
   your serotonergic springs  but never fire them. Eventually  it is such   
   an overload,  you just sleep it  off for the  winter.  Esp interesting   
   that  hibernation  isn't  localised  on  the  evolutionary  tree,  but   
   splattered throughout.   
      
      
      
   				- = -   
       Vasos-Peter John Panagiotopoulos II, Columbia'81+, Bio$trategist   
   	      BachMozart ReaganQuayle EvrytanoKastorian   
          http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/vjp2/vasos.htm   
     ---{Nothing herein constitutes advice.  Everything fully disclaimed.}---   
   [Urb sprawl confounds terror] [Remorse begets zeal] [Windows is for Bimbos]   
      [Homeland Security means private firearms not lazy obstructive guards]   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)