melancholia
Sign in to savethumb| Physiognomy of the melancholic temperament (drawing by Thomas Holloway made for [[Johann Kaspar Lavater's Essays on Physiognomy, )]]
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- Medical condition.name
- Melancholic depression
- Medical condition.image
- File:Accademia - La Meditazione by Domenico Fetti 1618.jpg
- Medical condition.caption
- Meditation by Domenico Fetti 1618
- Medical condition.field
- Psychiatry
- Medical condition.symptoms
- Low mood, low self-esteem, fatigue, insomnia, anorexia, anhedonia, lack of mood reactivity
- Medical condition.complications
- Self harm, suicide
- Medical condition.onset
- Early adulthood
- Medical condition.causes
- Genetic, environmental, and psychological factors
- Medical condition.risks
- Family history, trauma
- Medical condition.treatment
- Counseling, antidepressant medication, electroconvulsive therapy
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- Early history
- English cultural movement
- Modern connotations
- Melancholic depression
- Signs and symptoms
- Causes
- Treatment
- Frequency
- See also
- Citations
- Further reading
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thumb| Physiognomy of the melancholic temperament (drawing by Thomas Holloway made for [[Johann Kaspar Lavater's Essays on Physiognomy, )]]
Melancholia or melancholy (; from ) is a concept found throughout ancient, medieval, and premodern medicine in Europe that describes a condition characterized by markedly depressed mood, bodily complaints, and sometimes hallucinations and delusions. Besides a pathological condition, melancholy could also refer to a mood or temperament and at times it was even used as a description of the human condition in general.