When psychology and psychiatry began to develop actively in the century, the word melancholia began to disappear from everyday life. Instead, doctors started making more specific diagnoses. Especially since the 1990s, diagnoses of depression have increasingly appeared in patient admission registries. However, melancholy is not the same as depression. As medical historian and anthropologist Karin Johannesson points out in A History of Melancholia, depression lacks many aspects of melancholia and its existential character.
A perfectly healthy person goes through periods of C Level Contact List depression, which can mean sickness, fear, and loss. Modern Russian-language psychiatry largely does not use the word melancholia, which is considered obsolete. Therefore, the Russian Center of Mental Health that doctors use this term to refer to the disease, as the names are imprecise and inconsistent. In the latest version of the International Classification of Diseases ( ), the term melancholia is used as one of the symptoms that accompany depression.
In contrast, other symptoms of depression are panic attacks or anxiety. In English-speaking practice, there is also no independent diagnosis of depression. However, the Mental Health Handbook lists melancholic depression, a subtype of depression characterized by loss of enjoyment of life, insomnia, weight loss, and psychomotor changes. In Russian-speaking practice, this subtype is often referred to as endogenous or psychotic depression.