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Not long after moving to the University of Southampton, Constantine Sedikides had lunch with a colleague in the psychology department and described some unusual symptoms he'd been feeling. A few times a week, he was suddenly hit with nostalgia for his previous home at the University of North Carolina: memories of old friends, Tar Heel basketball games, fried okra, the sweet smells of autumn in Chapel Hill. 搬到英国南安普顿大学之后(University of Southampton)不久的一天，康斯坦丁·斯蒂基特(Constantine Sedikides)和一个心理学系的同事共进午餐，讨论他最近一些不同寻常的感觉：每周里总有那么些时间，他会突然被怀旧之情所击中，想念他之前在美国北卡罗来纳州立大学(University of North Carolina)的家、老朋友、大学著名的Tar Heel篮球队的比赛、炸秋葵，还有教堂山城中秋天甜美的气息。 His colleague, a clinical psychologist, made an immediate diagnosis. He must be depressed. Why else live in the past? Nostalgia had been considered a disorder ever since the term was coined by a 17th-century Swiss physician who attributed soldiers' mental and physical maladies to their longing to return home — nostos in Greek, and the accompanying pain, algos. 斯蒂基特的同事是一位临床心理学家。他迅速给斯蒂基特做了个诊断：一定是抑郁症。还有什么其他原因会让你沉浸在过去呢？自从17世纪的瑞士医生发明“怀旧”这个单词以来，怀旧一直被认为是一种心理紊乱。这位瑞士医生将士兵们的精神与身体疾病都归咎于他们急切回家的心理，这在希腊语中被称为nostos——“怀旧”的英文单词nostagia的前半部分词根。而后半部分词根的algos，则意为“随之而来的痛苦”。 | 
