Melancholia

read it. This story was written based on a condition she was suffering from in her personal life and the situation of dealing with the struggle of how she feels. Charlotte Gilman was suffering from a severe and continuous nerve breakdown called Melancholia. While on the other hand, dealing with criticism of male domination of women during the nineteenth century. In the story, the narrators husband John, which is also her physician prescribed her with Dr. Mitchell’s treatment and kept her…

George R.R Martin, an American novelist, once said, “Love is madness and lust is poison.” Yet, the loss of the same love can oftentimes leave people in a state of anguish. In the poem “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe, the protagonist is trapped in melancholia after the loss of his wife Lenore. The author uses two gothic conventions; decay and emotion to manifest the main character’s madness driven by grief. The gothic convention of decay demonstrated how sorrow prompted the protagonists’…

Recently my grandparents came to visit me from Virginia, and when I said I needed to go the Burroughs and Chapin Art Museum for my Art Appreciation class they were more than happy to take me. I don’t really go there that often, and my grandparents had never been. Even though I had gone a few times before, it was a new experience for the both of us. Downstairs they had some really awesome exhibitions and it was very difficult to pick two pieces to write about. After a thorough examination, I…

in the DSM-5, depression affects various people in different ways. (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). The issue of depression covers a broad area of sub-types such as major depressive disorder, psychotic depression, bipolar disorder and melancholia. These different categories of depression differ in symptoms, severity and treatment approach. This essay aims to describe the aetiology of psychotic depression, the causal and maintaining factors of the disorder and the best treatment approach…

the plunge she would never be able to do and for not surrendering his happiness to society. He is a foreigner, but in terms of social conformity, rather than national identity. In a way, Clarissa is an ideal example of Sigmund Freud’s theory of melancholia. Mrs. Dalloway continues tormenting herself by living the life she’s stuck in, rather than striving for her own genuine…

demons’ were very extreme and ranged from lashings, use of restraints, imposed isolation and imposed starvation (History Today, 2012). Slowly, it started being linked to physiological illnesses and in the 4th century, depression was described as ‘melancholia’-attributed to an imbalance in the fluids of the four humours: blood, black bile, yellow bile and phlegm. It was suggested by Hippocrates that…

One of the driving forces for today’s rising rates of depression and suicide are the dozens of stigmas that pollute the field of psychology. However, one of the most potent and overlooked stigma is that of one’s nation. Most notably, first world countries all have different unspoken standards for coping with emotional conflict. Infamously so, Ireland and the US have stricter, more judgmental expectations for how individuals should manage their mental states. Veritably, "65% of [native Irish]…

“The Yellow Wallpaper” is a short story that is told by a first person narrator, Jane, where she describes in her journal entries the yellow wallpaper in her room. Jane suffers from a nervous depression condition and her illness gives a clear insight into her situation in society and in her own marriage. She devotes these journals to describe how the bed rest treatment deprives her sanity and how the yellow paper begins to alter the longer she is inside the room. The pattern and designs of the…

In the 1840’s the government wanted to collect data on mental illnesses in America. They included categories in the census such as “insanity, mania, melancholia, monomania, paresis, dementia, dipsomania, and epilepsy.” In 1917 the Committee on Statistics of the American Medico-Psychological Association, or the American Psychiatric Association as it is known today, published the Statistical Manual for the use of Institutions for the Insane. The manual contained twenty-two groups of mental…

Here I’d like to introduce a term which is Melancholia, There are people who feed themselves from the pain and misery, objectively people might call them sick and call their behaviour unnatural but the truth is that human perception is so diverse that nothing can be declared as objectively beautiful…