"A good life is not one in which we don't feel sadness, but one where suffering helps us to grow personally." This is probably the most powerful message of the soothing video on the subject of melancholy, a word that we come across many times in everyday life, especially on dreary day. And no, melancholy is not a disease, it is a type of sadness, it is a mental state that has many layers. Lethargy, inactivity, despondency, resignation to fate, boredom, wandering, listlessness, inability to be happy. It's all melancholy. A condition that is not pleasant, but something that we should accept as a part of life.
Melancholy is a term that is used most often in autumn and winter, when the days are short, when outside the picture is monochromatic, when the day is gloomy. It is mental distress, which affects many people. In the last century, it was "fueled" by wars and their consequences, in recent years it was primarily caused by the recession and the poor blood picture of the economy, which drove people to a state of despondency, one of the symptoms of melancholy.
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Melancholy is not treated, not because there is no cure for melancholics, but because it is not a disease. But it is a serious medical condition for which it is typical excessive secretion of black bile as Hippocrates somehow found out. But before you watch the entire instructional video, one more thought from it. We cannot avoid melancholy, we must accept as a part of life. This may seem difficult because today melancholy is considered something negative, and modern society it only puts happiness on a pedestal. This is somehow at odds with the course of our life, which is mainly surrounded by them grief and loss.
