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involutional melancholia

noun

Psychiatry.
  1. (formerly) extreme depression related to menopause or, less frequently, the male climacteric.


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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of involutional melancholia1

First recorded in 1905–10
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Secretary of Defense James Forrestal committed suicide in 1949 while hospitalized for involutional melancholia.

More astonishing than the play were the players : housewives and secretaries suffering from involutional melancholia or agitated schizophrenia, mechanics or plumbers in manic-depressive states.

Doctors found him to be suffering from involutional melancholia and depressive psychosis.

Allegedly ridden with involutional melancholia, depressive psychosis, and heart disease, Hoppy sucked cough drops to stave off a cold.

We have not observed in our cases of involutional melancholia any undue tendency to give individual reactions.

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