That's a very Victorian word *laughs* I think they used it when they meant what we call depression now.

Melancholia is exactly that. They often used it to describe Edgar Allan Poe; or Abraham Lincoln (as in, he had fits of melancholia). I just think it's a cooler-sounding word than "depression".

There's nothing I like more than seeing characters who are normally in control of everything slip for a split second.

Ooooh, yes. I can think of several. ;)