Good Reasons for Bad Feelings

Chickens that lose a fight and descend in the pecking order withdraw from social engagement and act submissive, thereby reducing further attacks by chickens higher in the hierarchy.

Good Reasons for Bad Feelings

The alpha male, who gets essentially all the matings, has bright blue testicles. Until, that is, he loses a fight with another male. Then he huddles into a ball, rocks, withdraws, and acts depressed as his testicles turn a dusky gray. Price interprets these changes s signals of “involuntary yielding”. John Price

Good Reasons for Bad Feelings

Depressive episodes are precipitated by failure to a accept a loss in a status competition. They view low mood as a normal response to losing a competition and depression as a the result of continuing useless status striving—“failure to yield”.

Good Reasons for Bad Feelings

They interpret diverse stressful life events as a loss of status, and they observe that many patients recover when they give up an unwindable status competition.

Good Reasons for Bad Feelings

Mood depends on surroundings.

Good Reasons for Bad Feelings