Mania
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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[edit | edit source]
Psychological Conditions[edit | edit source]
A[edit | edit source]
- 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[edit | edit source]
- Bibliomania – Books and reading (biblio- (Greek) meaning books)
C[edit | edit source]
- Choreomania, choromania – Dancing (choreo- (Greek) meaning dance)
D[edit | edit source]
- 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[edit | edit source]
- 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[edit | edit source]
- Graphomania – Writing (grapho- (Greek) meaning to write)
H[edit | edit source]
- 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[edit | edit source]
- Kleptomania, klopemania – Stealing
- Klazomania – Screaming
L[edit | edit source]
- Logomania – Being wordy and talkative, i.e., loquacity
- Lisztomania – An obsession with Franz Liszt
- Ludomania – Gambling
M[edit | edit source]
- 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[edit | edit source]
- Necromania – Being sexual with dead bodies (necrophilia)
- Nymphomania – An obsolete term for female hypersexuality
O[edit | edit source]
- Oniomania – Desire to shop
- Onychotillomania – Picking at the fingernails
P[edit | edit source]
- Plutomania – Money or wealth (ploutos- (Greek) meaning wealth)
- Pottermania – Harry Potter
- Pteridomania – Ferns
- Pyromania – Fire or starting fires
R[edit | edit source]
- Rhinotillexomania – Nose picking (rhino- (Greek) meaning nose and tillexis- meaning to pluck, tear, pull, or pick at)
S[edit | edit source]
- 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[edit | edit source]
- Theomania – One's own divinity or one's divine mission
- Toxicomania – Poisons
- Trichotillomania – Hair removal
- Typomania – Printing one’s works
X[edit | edit source]
- Xenomania – Foreign things
Other[edit | edit source]
- 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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