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Fundamentally we want to be adapted to our environment. As the conditions for success change, what was prior adaptive is now maladaptive disorder. Being institutionalized in a school after spending hundreds of thousands/millions years out in nature/fighting/hunting/building shelter has consequences.

Much of disorder is likely just maladaptive for, as uncle Ted put it, the post industrial revolution.




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