19 juin 2008

There is a luxury in self-dispraise, and inward self-disparagement affords, to meditative spleen a grateful feast.

Melancholia syndromes as commonly labeled in present classifications :

Manic-depressive illness
Melancholic ‘‘major’’ depression (unipolar depression)
Manic-depressive depression (bipolar depression)
Psychotic depression
Catatonic and stuporous depression
Puerperal depression
Abnormal bereavement