Mania

Mania is a mental disorder characterized by extreme excitement, happiness, overactivity, and agitation. It is usually associated with the high points of bipolar disorder, formerly known as manic-depressive disorder. Mania can manifest in various forms, ranging from an intense interest or obsession with a particular subject to severe mood disturbances. This article provides an overview of the different types of manias, with examples of specific conditions and phenomena.

Types of Manias

Psychological Conditions

A

• Aboulomania – Indecisiveness (aboulo- (Greek) meaning irresolution or indecision)
• Andromania – Human sexual behavior and desire towards males in females (andro- (Greek) meaning man, men, male or masculine) Can be replaced by hypersexuality, nymphomania, cytheromania or hysteromania.
• Anglomania – England and a passion or obsession with the English (i.e. anglophile) See also anglophobia.
• Anthomania – Flowers (antho- (Greek) meaning flower)
• Arithmomania, arithomania – Numbers and counting (arithmo- (Greek) meaning number)

B

• Bibliomania – Books and reading (biblio- (Greek) meaning books)

C

• Choreomania, choromania – Dancing (choreo- (Greek) meaning dance)

D

• Demonomania – One's own demonic possession (delusional conviction)
• Decalcomania – Decal (decorative technique of transferring specially prepared paper prints to ceramic surfaces, i.e., glass, porcelain, etc.)
• Dermatillomania – Picking at the skin
• Dipsomania – Alcohol (dipso- (Greek) meaning thirst)
• Drapetomania – Running away from home (pseudoscience)
• Dromomania – Traveling

E

• Egomania – Oneself and self-worship (ego- (Latin) meaning I, first person and singular pronoun)
• Ergomania, ergasiomania – Work (ergasio- or ergo- (Greek) meaning work)
• Erotomania – Sexual desire or sexual attraction from strangers (delusional conviction) (eroto- (Greek) meaning sexual passion or desire)
• Etheromania – Ether (ethero- (Greek > Latin) meaning upper air or sky)
• Epomania – Craze for writing epics
• Eleutheromania – An intense and irresistible desire for freedom

G

• Graphomania – Writing (grapho- (Greek) meaning to write)

H

• Hippomania – A passion and obsession with horses
• Hypermania – Severe mania—mental state with high-intensity disorientation and often violent behavior, symptomatic of bipolar disorder (hyper- (Greek) meaning abnormal excess)
• Hypomania – Mild mania—mental state with persistent and pervasive elevated or irritable mood, symptomatic of bipolar disorder (hypo- (Greek) meaning deficient)

K

• Kleptomania, klopemania – Stealing
• Klazomania – Screaming

L

• Logomania – Being wordy and talkative, i.e., loquacity
• Lisztomania – An obsession with Franz Liszt

• Ludomania – Gambling

M

• Mania – Severely elevated mood
• Megalomania – Wealth and power
• Metromania – Writing verse
• Micromania – Self-deprecation
• Monomania – A single object, type of object, or concept
• Morsusmania – Excessive or unbridled enthusiasm for biting
• Mythomania – Lying

N

• Necromania – Being sexual with dead bodies (necrophilia)
• Nymphomania – An obsolete term for female hypersexuality

O

• Oniomania – Desire to shop
• Onychotillomania – Picking at the fingernails

P

• Plutomania – Money or wealth (ploutos- (Greek) meaning wealth)
• Pottermania – Harry Potter
• Pteridomania – Ferns
• Pyromania – Fire or starting fires

R

• Rhinotillexomania – Nose picking (rhino- (Greek) meaning nose and tillexis- meaning to pluck, tear, pull, or pick at)

S

• Satyromania – Excessive, often uncontrollable sexual desire in and behavior by a man (satyr- (Greek > Latin) meaning a woodland deity, part man and part goat; riotous merriment and lechery)

T

• Theomania – One's own divinity or one's divine mission
• Toxicomania – Poisons
• Trichotillomania – Hair removal
• Typomania – Printing one’s works

X

• Xenomania – Foreign things

Other

• Beatlemania – the Beatles (an obsession with the Beatles)
• Tulipomania – A metaphor for an economic bubble
• Fennomania and Svecomania – Political groups in the Grand Duchy of Finland
• Trudeaumania – The Canadian politician Pierre Trudeau
• TrackMania – An arcade game
• WrestleMania – The annual flagship pay-per-view event of WWE
• Tazmania – An early 1990s cartoon show, featuring Looney Tunes character Taz (The Tasmanian Devil).
• Decalcomania – Transferring pictures, an artistic technique

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