• Question: How do you get melancholy, how is is caused ?

    Asked by cazeirian to Asif, Laura, Lena, Sean, Viv on 17 Mar 2012.
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      Lena Ciric answered on 17 Mar 2012:

      Melancholy is just another word for depression or feeling sad. Most of the time it is caused by events that have made you feel sad. Sometimes they are a result of a chemical imbalance. Either way, there are many good treatments for melancholy – some of them involve talking to someone about what’s making you feel sad and some of them involve drugs that make you feel better or sort out the chemical imbalance.

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      Sean Murphy answered on 20 Mar 2012:

      In contemporary usage,melancholy is a mood disorder of non-specific depression, characterized by low levels of both enthusiasm and eagerness for activity.

      These are a few ways people can become effectively melancholy:
      http://www.wikihow.com/Become-Effectively-Melancholy

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