Melancholy means the state of deep sadness and apathy continuously felt by someone.
Melancholia is a type of depression and has the same symptoms: the person is not interested in anything around him, no event brings pleasure or joy and life is no longer interesting.
It is a term with origin in Greek melancholy that expresses a persistent sadness, often for no apparent reason.
Physically, the state of melancholy is reflected in the appearance always the crash, slimming and staring into infinity.
The Greek physician Hippocrates, in the century. Go. C., defined melancholy as the “black bile”, one of the four bodily humors that in his theory are constituted by blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile. For Hippocrates, the planet Saturn exerted influence on the individual's mood and caused the spleen to expel excess black bile, causing melancholy.
At Psychiatry, melancholy is a mental syndrome that is characterized by the feeling of impotence, uselessness, negative thoughts, difficulty concentrating, lack of appetite, anxiety, insomnia and constant ideas of death. Melancholia is one of the symptoms of manic-depressive psychosis.
For Freud, melancholy is an emotional state similar to the grieving process, but there is no loss that characterizes it. Melancholy can occur without a definite cause.
At the Romanticism, melancholy was a prized emotional state as it represented a soul-enriching experience.
Within the scope of characterology, the melancholy type is one of the four personality types, marked by a little spontaneous temperament, with many negative emotions.
