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melancholia

Depressive disposition attributed to the influence of one of the humours in pre-scientific thought; melancholia was thought to be particularly characteristic of writers and thinkers.

The psychological states associated with it were assembled and analysed by the English philosopher Robert Burton in his Anatomy of Melancholy 1621.
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Or perhaps mine was a physical state, some sort of disease akin to melancholia which is a form of insanity?
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