History Throughout history, medicine was largely ignorant about lovesickness . It was perceived as a mental illness  associated with melancholia , and distinguishment between the two was vague .  Aretaeus of Cappadocia, an ancient Greek physician, believed that lovesickness was a depressive phase that some individuals can experience from lack of love, but didn't distinguish it from melancholia  .
History Lovesickness and Melancholy were often found hand in hand . It was perceived as a mental illness sometimes associated with melancholia . Other than medicine it was the focus of cultural and literary analyses. The motif is found throughout literature, from the Lais of Marie de France to Romeo and Juliet. Both of these depict individuals literally dying because of love, the former by the lovesickness itself and the latter by suicide. Aretaeus of Cappadocia, an ancient Greek physician, believed that lovesickness was a depressive phase that some individuals can experience from lack of love, but didn't distinguish it from melancholia . The first extensive treatment of lovesickness, then called Love-Melancholy, was in Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy. The best understandings of all psychological conditions at that time were based off of Humorism .
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Throughout history, medicine was largely ignorant about lovesickness
Lovesickness and Melancholy were often found hand in hand
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, and distinguishment between the two was vague
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Other than medicine it was the focus of cultural and literary analyses. The motif is found throughout literature, from the Lais of Marie de France to Romeo and Juliet. Both of these depict individuals literally dying because of love, the former by the lovesickness itself and the latter by suicide.
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. The first extensive treatment of lovesickness, then called Love-Melancholy, was in Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy. The best understandings of all psychological conditions at that time were based off of Humorism