Melancholia was directed by a screenwriter.
For the purposes of medical diagnostic classification, the terms "melancholia" the "melancholic" are still in use (for example, in ICD-11 and DSM-5) to specify certain features that may be present in  major depression, such as:severely depressed mood, wherein the person often feels despondent, forlorn, disconsolate, or emptypervasive anhedonia  loss of interest or pleasure in most activities that are normally enjoyablelack of emotional responsiveness (mood does not brighten, even briefly) to normally pleasurable stimuli (such as food or entertainment) or situations (such as warm, affectionate interactions with friends or family)terminal insomnia  unwanted early morning awakening (two or more hours earlier than normal)marked psychomotor retardation or agitationmarked loss of appetite or weight lossIn May 2020, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a twelve part series titled "The New Anatomy of Melancholy", looking at depression from the perspectives of Robert Burton's 1621 book "The Anatomy of Melancholy"
 This engraving has been interpreted as portraying melancholia as the state of waiting for inspiration to strike, and not necessarily as a depressive affliction

