Dumesnil’s analysis is melancholia with delusions of persecution, due to war stress in a predisposed person.
Soukhanoff found frequent instances of schizophrenia, wherein the melancholia tends to conceal the actual dementia praecox.
In melancholia and hysteria it is probably capable of being used with benefit, and it is worth bearing in mind in dealing with insomnia.
Berthier in 1859 observed a case of melancholia with delirium which continued through pregnancy.
Retreat classed as mania and melancholia have proved to be folie circulaire.
At the present day religious fervor accounts for but few of our remarkable instances of abstinence, most of them being due to some form of nervous disorder, varying from hysteria and melancholia to absolute insanity.
Nostalgia is the name generally given to that variety of melancholia in which there is an intense longing for home or country.
Thus the state of things is somewhat obscure, especially as only a few forms and cases of melancholiahave been submitted to psycho-analytical investigation.
A psychogenic melancholia of this sort can end in mania, and this cycle can be repeated several times, just as easily as in a case which appears to be spontaneous.
A melancholia of this kind may also end in a change to mania; so that the possibility of this happening represents a feature which is independent of the other characteristics in the symptomatology.
Thus the foundation of these spontaneous oscillations of mood is unknown; we are without insight into the mechanism of the displacement of a melancholia by a mania.
The severe forms of melancholia are apt to be associated with delusions.
It is almost exactly the opposite ofmelancholia in every symptom.
While melancholia occurs very frequently in older people, mania is almost essentially a mental disease of the young.
The patient has usually first an attack of melancholia, then an attack of mania, and then after an interval melancholia and mania once more.
Melancholia does not develop as a rule without some warning of what may be looked for.
Nearly three-fourths of the patients who suffer from melancholia will recover from a first attack under proper care.
Professor Kraepelin has pointed out that in about one out of six cases the patients who came to him supposedly for the treatment of primary attacks of melancholiaproved to be really suffering from a relapse of severe mental depression.
One of the most characteristic symptoms of melancholia is the refusal to take food.
This latter disease, however, is an index of a much more degenerated mental state of the individual than is either mania or melancholia alone.
Phobias such as these are associated with an evident tendency to melancholia and hypochondriasis.
A cure resulted in a peculiarly difficult instance recorded by Martin[230]: A young man of twenty-six suffered from melancholia and hypochondriasis.
I have abundant evidence that melancholia sufferers can be restored to peace, efficiency and poise, by proper thought direction, and by proper physical employment.
Melancholia is an ailment that offers a good chance for Christian Science.
It is the circumstances of my life that cause this melancholia and misery.
He was of an emotional type, was more-than-ordinarily sensitive about his trouble and brooded over it constantly, having long fits of deep melancholia that were a constant source of worry to his parents.
We are learning a new significance of human life, as I said; and the sublime audacities of the elder poets in attempting to transcend the melancholia of their day are growing antiquated, just as Byron's heroic mockery is turning stale.
Cowper himself, on emerging from his melancholia at St. Albans, had adopted the extreme Calvinistic tenets in regard to the divine omnipotence.
He applied to us suffering from entire loss of the sexual function, with great nervous debility, and there was a thin slimy discharge from the urethra, and the usual symptoms of melancholia and weakness.
The sigh of melancholia indicates hepatic torpor, thus showing a special relation between the liver and respiratory organs.
Desportes[21] refers to the case of a woman subject to melancholia who continued to exist during two months of abstinence, during which she took nothing into the stomach but a little water.
An insane person suffering from acute mania also resists inanition badly, but one the subject of melancholia often endures the total deprivation of aliment for a long time.
During his stay in London his melancholia was changed into a real attack of mania.
Virgilio has made me a present of some portraits of Italian specialists, nearly all of them exceedingly lifelike, the work of a melancholia patient.
Burns wrote in a letter: “My constitution and frame were ab origine blasted with a deep incurable taint ofmelancholia which poisons my existence.
The delirium of melancholia alternates with that of grandiose monomania.
Excluding involution melancholia there is probably no psychosis in which the patients exhibit such infantile reactions as in stupor.
He urges strongly the separation of stupor from melancholia as an entirely different type of reaction, in this connection citing the views pro and con of various authors.
Sometimes very puzzling cases occur in more advanced years when it is difficult to say whether one is dealing with involution melancholia or stupor.
Of these Delasiauve is particularly cogent in discriminating stupor from melancholia on the grounds of the difference of the emotional reactions and of the intellectual disorder and the real paucity of thought in the former psychosis.
That night the melancholiawas heavy as a nightmare, without the partial unconsciousness of sleep.
Paul of Aegina seems, then, to have thought that mania and melancholia were definitely related to each other, and to have held a similar opinion in this regard to Aretaeus, who declared that melancholia was an incipient mania.
Jodocus Lommius differentiated between delirium, phrenitis, melancholia and mania and described a particular variety of this last form as hydrophobia.
He differentiated mania from melancholia by saying that the melancholia was due to a frigid humor, while mania was due to the malignity of the thin and bilious humors of the body.
In melancholia as well as in other narcistic conditions a feature of emotional life is strikingly shown which, since the time of Bleuler, we have been accustomed to designate as ambivalence.
Even the suicidal tendencies of melancholia are more comprehensible when we consider that this bitterness of the patient falls alike on the ego itself and on the object of its love and hate.
We learn that in melancholia as well as in mania, it is a matter of finding a special way for solving the conflict, the prerequisites for which entirely coincide with those of other neuroses.
Any man who yields habitually to melancholia may expect his brain, sooner or later, to degenerate from its original strength, and relax the toughness and compactness of its fibre.
She never had an attack of melancholia in her life.
Your calling her by her grandmother's name was natural enough in your condition--you have acknowledged that your melancholia had already taken possession of you.
What is more, I have had melancholia all my life, but delusion never before.
What is more, I know enough about melancholia to know that it does not drift into dementia until middle age at least.
When they are at their worst they are the form known as melancholia attonita.
In melancholia the expression of the face often tells the character of the disease; the eyes are downcast, the lines of the face are lengthened, and the whole appearance is that of unhappiness.
If attendants will watch their patients as they come out of acute mania or melancholia and become quiet, they will often notice that they gain in flesh and become demented.
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