How did people deal/understand with depression before it was even called depression?

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How did people deal/understand with depression before it was even called depression?

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From the Greeks. It was called melancholia, ‘black bile’, one of the four humors/temperaments.

Laudanum was a popular drug during the Victorian era (opium dissolved in alcohol) for writers/creative types.

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