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melancholic songs
a melancholic expression
The melancholic is constantly agitated (inquietus), roams around day and night, and is usually drowsy.
A great deal of progress has been made in elucidating the relation between stress and melancholic depression.
We also examined age effects, and for any differential effect of melancholic depressive status.
At 6 months, 24 % (13/55) of the depressed patients were melancholic, the proportion rising to 36 % (16/45) at 18 months.
Finally, we compared the outcome of melancholic and non-melancholic depression.
Differences in the course of melancholic and non-melancholic depression were very minor.
In case polarity influenced any age effect, we repeated the correlations in our 39 bipolar melancholic subjects.
The melancholic is inherently suspicious, as is the slothful when trying constantly to hide his laziness.
