Melancholy

[Beneath the surface]

What are your experiences with melancholy? How would you define melancholy? What do you do when you're feeling melancholy? Do you think that melancholy is a good thing?

Are you naturally a melancholy person, and if so, how well does this description fit you?
http://www.fisheaters.com/quizm.html

Sorry for asking so many questions. I'd be interested to hear your views.

 

[Barnabas]

What are your experiences with melancholy? How would you define melancholy? What do you do when you're feeling melancholy? Do you think that melancholy is a good thing?

Are you naturally a melancholy person, and if so, how well does this description fit you?
http://www.fisheaters.com/quizm.html

Sorry for asking so many questions. I'd be interested to hear your views.

Galen's comedies, no I'm not wholey melancholy. In Galen's theory melancholy was a part of a persons nature or attitude, much like the MBTI. It was thought to come from having a higher concentration of black bile then the other fluids in your body.

the other fluids were:

Phlegm which represented lethargy or boredom

Blood which represented happines or excitment

Yellow Bile which represented anger

having a high amount of any of these liquids in your body was said to have changed your disposition to the appropriate emotion.


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I gues i'm kinda melancholy now, heh i'm also kinda lethargic what do you know.

I wouldn't call it a bad thing no, maybe even neccesary at times.