I will read the rest of it tomorrow. Just by skimming it I would largely agree. I have really been working on that the last few months. Finding value in my suffering. I have started a couple of threads about it.
http://forums.psychcentral.com/depre...g-meaning.html
One by Keep Rolling
http://forums.psychcentral.com/depre...given-you.html

Regardless of the cause I would agree we can find meaning and value in our symptoms and our suffering.

I don't think I can go along with all phenotypes being advantageous for survival. That is a rather simplistic view of evolutionary biology. Just because they exist doesn't mean they are advantageous. Are all genetic defects advantageous to human survival. I dunno. I don't think so. They might be one mutation away from something that is beneficial. There is more to evolutionary biology than natural selection. There is genetic drift, sexual attraction, random environmental mutations. And natural selection has to have something to select out. Or a very good looking women with a set of messed up genes is more likely to pass them on.

You could argue that there is no such thing as a good or bad phenotype. They are all part of evolution but that doesn't mean they are all beneficial.