MELANCHOLIA
It is a deep feeling of detachment from previously experienced bliss of life.
Hippocrates in the 4th century BC indicated that melancholia is caused by an imbalance in one of the 4 bodily liquids in humans. Preponderance to melancholia was linked to a type of personality "Black Bile" the Greed word for melancholia.
In 2010 Avicenna, the father of Medicine had mentioned and described Melancholia in his book " Canon of Medicine" in Arab " Khanuun" of Medicine" He described melancholia as an affective disorder manifestation of which could point to depression . He cited the manifestation of this disoder namely phobia nd suspiciousness.
Mohamed Buwe Osman, MD
Physician & Artist
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