Editing Melancholia (section)

==See also==
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* [[Boredom]]
* [[Dysthymia]]
* [[Got the morbs]]
* [[Melancholic depression]]
* ''[[Mono no aware]]''
* [[Nostalgia]]
* [[Pessimism]]
* ''[[Saudade]]''
* [[Spleen#Society and culture|Spleen]]
* [[Vapours (disease)]]
* ''[[Wit and Mirth, or Pills to Purge Melancholy]]''
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* Melancholia is a specific form of mental illness characterized by depressed mood, abnormal motor functions, and abnormal vegetative signs. It has been identified in medical writings from antiquity and was best characterized in the 19th century. In the 20th century, with the interest in psychoanalytic writing, "[[Major depressive disorder|major depression]]" became the principal class in psychiatric classifications. [See Taylor MA, Fink M: Melancholia for details of history.]-->