I don't think that the notion of melancholia need be an old thing to be picked over with modern tweezers. I have no idea what the current DSM (1) has to say ab

I don't think that the notion of melancholia need be an old thing to be picked over with modern tweezers. I have no idea what the current DSM (1) has to say about it, if anything. Medical history has proven to be rather ... complicated ... Doctors/physicians/faith healers/shamans/druids etc have all featured at some point. Here we are talking about mental health, which has only recently been granted the status of actually existing and the study of it moving away from hand waving nonsense and real science being employed. etc etc (1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagnostic_and_Statistical_Manual_of_Mental_Disorders https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagnostic_and_Statistical_Man...