Previously considered a mental illness nostalgia

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We all sometimes feel a sense of nostalgia, we remember a family vacation, or old schoolmates with whom we have long since lost touch, or those we loved, but who is no longer with us. What we had not remembered, it will be very, very sad feeling, it has a special, bittersweet flavor with hints of melancholy and happiness for long-gone, the best times. Nostalgia covers all aspects of our lives, and when she was first "discovered" in 1688, the year it was considered a mental illness.

Medical student, Johannes Hofer was one of the first who was able to determine exactly what was the nostalgia. In 1688, the year he wrote a dissertation, which was defined as a misfortune nostalgia of those who had gone away from home. These people took with them memories of the house, and those who love them, and these memories over time, could bring these people serious harm. Hofer wrote that acute symptoms of nostalgia occurs when a person was acting kind of "trigger", which reminded him of home at the most inopportune moment. Such a mechanism could be some kind of a song, some smell, some food. At the end of his dissertation Hofer defines nostalgia as a mental disorder in which people can fall into a very deep depression. As a result, they absorb the sadness, apathy, and they begin to suffer from an inability to adapt to a new life. Since Hofer mainly studied the Swiss soldiers, nostalgia later became known as the "Swiss disease».

In the 19th century, doctors still continued to look for a physical power of nostalgia. Nostalgia was defined as a mental disorder in the early 20th century. At that time it began to be called "immigrant psychosis».

via factroom.ru