Topic: let's have a wikipedia article thread; i will start

+Anonymous A — 8.8 years ago #49,002

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudade

> Saudade is a deep emotional state of nostalgic or profound melancholic longing for an absent something or someone that one loves. Moreover, it often carries a repressed knowledge that the object of longing might never return. Saudade was once described as "the love that remains" after someone is gone. Saudade is the recollection of feelings, experiences, places, or events that once brought excitement, pleasure, well-being, which now triggers the senses and makes one live again. It can be described as an emptiness, like someone (e.g., one's children, parents, sibling, grandparents, friends, pets) or something.

The best example I can give off the top of my head is returning to your childhood home as an adult. You may remember the tender memories but it is of a place that you can never truly return to.

Apologies if you had an abusive home as my example may not fit the definition in said case

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+Nugget Syntaxroll !Uvm54ORbmo — 8.8 years ago, 1 hour later[T] [B] #530,937

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholism

> Alcoholism, also known as alcohol use disorder (AUD), is a broad term for any drinking of alcohol that results in mental or physical health problems.[12] It was previously divided into two types: alcohol abuse and alcohol dependence.[1][13] In a medical context, alcoholism is said to exist when two or more of the following conditions is present: a person drinks large amounts over a long time period, has difficulty cutting down, acquiring and drinking alcohol takes up a great deal of time, alcohol is strongly desired, usage results in not fulfilling responsibilities, usage results in social problems, usage results in health problems, usage results in risky situations, withdrawal occurs when stopping, and alcohol tolerance has occurred with use.[1] Risky situations include drinking and driving or having unsafe sex among others.[1] Alcohol use can affect all parts of the body but particularly affects the brain, heart, liver, pancreas, and immune system.[3][4] This can result in mental illness, Wernicke–Korsakoff syndrome, an irregular heart beat, liver failure, and an increase in the risk of cancer, among other diseases.[3][4] Drinking during pregnancy can cause damage to the baby resulting in fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.[2] Generally women are more sensitive to alcohol's harmful physical and mental effects than men.[9]

+Anonymous C — 8.8 years ago, 12 hours later, 14 hours after the original post[T] [B] #530,962

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bert_(Sesame_Street)

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