The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
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The Importance of Joy in Depression
He's writing about depression not in a 17th century sense But very recognizably the depression that we're talking about now. He's extremely humane. It's he's full of Tenderness towards people who suffer from his dreadful condition. No sooner are their eyes open but after terrible and troublesome dreams their heavy hearts begin to sigh. They are still fretting chafing sighing grieving complaining finding faults repining grudging weeping. Vexing themselves disquieted in mind with restless unquiet thoughts Discontent either for their own other men's or public affairs such as concern them not things passed present or to come.
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