DIFFERENT TYPES OF MANIA

 

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Mania

Definition

1

Ablutomania

Mania for washing oneself

2

Aboulomania

Pathological indecisiveness

3

Agromania

Intense desire to be in open spaces

4

Andromania

Nymphomania

5

Anglomania

Craze or obsession with England and the English

6

Anthomania

Obsession with flowers

7

Aphrodisiomania

Abnormal sexual interest

8

Arithmomania

Obsessive preoccupation with numbers

9

Balletomania

Abnormal fondness for ballet

10

Bibliomania

Craze for books or reading

11

Bruxomania

Compulsion for grinding teeth

12

Cacodemomania

Pathological belief that one is inhabited by an evil spirit

13

Catapedamania

Obsession with jumping from high places

14

Chinamania

Obsession with collecting china

15

Choreomania

Dancing mania

16

Clinomania

Excessive desire to stay in bed

17

Copromania

Obsession with feces

18

Cytheromania

Nymphomania

19

Dacnomania

Obsession with killing

20

Demonomania

Pathological belief that one is possessed by demons

21

Dinomania

Mania for dancing

22

Dipsomania

Abnormal craving for alcohol

23

Discomania

Obsession for disco music

24

Doramania

Obsession with owning furs

25

Doromania

Obsession with giving gifts

26

Drapetomania

Intense desire to run away from home

27

Dromomania

Compulsive longing for travel

28

Ecdemomania

Abnormal compulsion for wandering

29

Egomania

Irrational self-centered attitude

30

Eleutheromania

Manic desire for freedom

31

Empleomania

Mania for holding public office

32

Enosimania

Pathological belief that one has sinned

33

Entheomania

Abnormal belief that one is divinely inspired

34

Epomania

Craze for writing epics

35

Ergasiomania

Excessive desire to work, ergomania

36

Erotomania

Abnormally powerful sex drive

37

Etheromania

Craving for ether

38

Ethnomania

Obsessive devotion to one's own people

39

Eulogomania

Obsessive craze for eulogies

40

Flagellomania

Abnormal enthusiasm for flogging

41

Florimania

Craze for flowers

42

Francomania

Craze or obsession with France and the French

43

Gallomania

Craze or obsession with France and the French

44

Gamomania

Obsession with issuing odd marriage proposals

45

Graecomania

Obsession with Greece and the Greeks; hellenomania

46

Graphomania

Obsession with writing

47

Gynaecomania

Abnormal sexual obsession with women

48

Habromania

Insanity featuring cheerful delusions

49

Hagiomania

Mania for sainthood

50

Hexametromania

Mania for writing in hexameter

51

Hieromania

Pathological religious visions or delusions

52

Hippomania

Obsession with horses

53

Hydromania

Irrational craving for water

54

Hylomania

Excessive tendency towards materialism

55

Hypermania

Severe mania

56

Hypomania

Minor mania

57

Hysteromania

Nymphomania

58

Iconomania

Obsession with icons or portraits

59

Idolomania

Obsession or devotion to idols

60

Infomania

Excessive devotion to accumulating facts

61

Islomania

Craze or obsession for islands

62

Italomania

Obsession with Italy or Italians

63

Kleptomania

Irrational predilection for stealing

64

Klopemania

Kleptomania

65

Logomania

Pathological loquacity

66

Lypemania

Extreme pathological mournfulness

67

Macromania

Delusion that objects are larger than natural size

68

Megalomania

Abnormal tendency towards grand or grandiose behaviour

69

Melomania

Craze for music

70

Methomania

Morbid craving for alcohol

71

Metromania

Insatiable desire for writing verse

72

Micromania

Pathological self-deprecation or belief that one is very small

73

Monomania

Abnormal obsession with a single thought or idea

74

Morphinomania

Habitual craving or desire for morphine

75

Musomania

Obsession with music

76

Mythomania

Lying or exaggerating to an abnormal extent

77

Narcomania

Uncontrollable craving for narcotics

78

Necromania

Sexual obsession with dead bodies; necrophilia

79

Nosomania

Delusion of suffering from a disease

80

Nostomania

Abnormal desire to go back to familiar places

81

Nymphomania

Excessive or crazed sexual desire

82

Oenomania

Obsession or craze for wine

83

Oligomania

Obsession with a few thoughts or ideas

84

Oniomania

Mania for making purchases

85

Onomamania

Mania for names

86

Onomatomania

Irresistible desire to repeat certain words

87

Onychotillomania

Compulsive picking at the fingernails

88

Opiomania

Craving for opium

89

Opsomania

Abnormal love for one kind of food

90

Orchidomania

Abnormal obsession with orchids

91

Parousiamania

Obsession with the second coming of Christ

92

Pathomania

Moral insanity

93

Peotillomania

Abnormal compulsion for pulling on the penis

94

Phagomania

Excessive desire for food or eating

95

Phaneromania

Habit of biting one's nails

96

Pharmacomania

Abnormal obsession with trying drugs

97

Phonomania

Pathological tendency to murder

98

Photomania

Pathological desire for light

99

Phyllomania

Excessive or abnormal production of leaves

100

Phytomania

Obsession with collecting plants

101

Planomania

Abnormal desire to wander and disobey social norms

102

Plutomania

Mania for money

103

Polemomania

Mania for war

104

Politicomania

Mania for politics

105

Polkamania

Craze for polka dancing

106

Polymania

Mania affecting several different mental faculties

107

Poriomania

Abnormal compulsion to wander

108

Pornomania

Obsession with pornography

109

Potichomania

Craze for imitating oriental porcelain

110

Potomania

Abnormal desire to drink alcohol

111

Pseudomania

Irrational predilection for lying

112

Pteridomania

Passion for ferns

113

Pyromania

Craze for starting fires

114

Rhinotillexomania

Compulsive nose picking

115

Rinkomania

Obsession with skating

116

Satyromania

Abnormally great male sexual desire; satyriasis

117

Scribbleomania

Obsession with scribbling

118

Sebastomania

Religious insanity

119

Sitiomania

Morbid aversion to food

120

Sophomania

Delusion that one is incredibly intelligent

121

Squandermania

Irrational propensity for spending money wastefully

122

Stampomania

Obsession with stamp-collecting

123

Syphilomania

Pathological belief that one is afflicted with syphilis

124

Technomania

Craze for technology

125

Teutomania

Obsession with Teutonic or German things

126

Thanatomania

Belief that one has been affected by death magic, and resulting illness

127

Theatromania

Craze for going to plays

128

Theomania

Belief that one is a god

129

Timbromania

Craze for stamp collecting

130

Tomomania

Irrational predilection for performing surgery

131

Toxicomania

Morbid craving for poisons

132

Trichotillomania

Neurosis where patient pulls out own hair

133

Tulipomania

Obsession with tulips

134

Typhomania

Delirious state resulting from typhus fever

135

Typomania

Craze for printing one's lucubration

136

Uranomania

Obsession with the idea of divinity

137

Verbomania

Craze for words

138

Xenomania

Inordinate attachment to foreign things

139

Zoomania

Insane fondness for animals


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