Modern Health Therapy

First, if depressive ruminations were negative, as most clinicians and researchers assume, episodes of depression should be longer to resolve when people receive interventions that encourage rumination, such as those who ask them to write their thoughts and feelings.

But the opposite seems true. Several studies have shown that the writing promoted a more rapid resolution of depression by facilitating a better understanding of problems.

Furthermore, various studies have shown that in states of depressed mood, people are better at solving social dilemmas. It is precisely, the authors say, the kind of problems important enough to require analysis and to justify the evolution of an emotion too expensive. For example, a woman with young children who discovers her husband is unfaithful should ignore it or force it to choose between her and another woman at risk of being abandoned ?

The laboratory experiment indicate that depressed people are best to solve social dilemmas by a better analysis of costs and benefits of different options.

The depression, the authors believe, is a way to indicate the nature of a complex social problem to solve. Therapies should encourage depressive ruminations rather than trying to prevent them and should aim to help resolve problems at the source of episodes of depression. (There are several therapies that specifically address this, they say). It is also essential in cases where there is a resistance to discuss ruminations, the therapist tries to identify and dismantle these barriers, they added.

The depression seems less a disorder in which the brain goes wrong, they summarize, a highly organized and complex mechanism that performs a specific function.