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Melancholy - a disease or a mood?
Melancholy is an outdated name for a disease of the body, which is characterized by a depressed state, increased sensitivity, emotional vulnerability.
In modern medicine, melancholy is equated with the word "depression." But in everyday life, melancholy is seen in states that imply melancholy, blues, sadness, despondency.
A melancholy person is in a state of continuous emotional distress. Nothing pleases him, much upsets him. Usually melancholic people are easily upset with minimal failures, are prone to excessive reflections, to prolonged gloomy contemplation of the world around them.
For melancholy, a depressed state of mind, joylessness and slowness in business are typical. Melancholy is a lingering state that people with an emotionally unstable psyche fall into.
Modern sciences psychology and psychiatry have moved away from the term "melancholy", but they can characterize a person's mood as melancholic, that is, a mood with a reduced vitality.
From the word "melancholy" comes one of the personality temperaments - "melancholic". A melancholic is a person prone to deep experiences of minor life problems, calm and little emotional on the outside, but easily injured on the inside.
Melancholic people, as a rule, have an extraordinary intellect, which allows them to be impeccable philosophers, psychologists, people of creative professions, but on the other hand, such intellect and a quality of nature make them people withdrawn from the hustle and bustle of life.
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