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agromania
an intense desire to be alone or out in the open
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alcoholism, dipsomania, potomania
an intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess
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egomania
an intense and irresistible love for yourself and concern for your own needs
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kleptomania
an irresistible impulse to steal in the absence of any economic motive
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logomania, logorrhea
pathologically excessive (and often incoherent) talking
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monomania, possession
a mania restricted to one thing or idea
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necromania, necrophilia, necrophilism
an irresistible sexual attraction to dead bodies
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phaneromania
an irresistible desire to pick at superficial body parts (as in obsessive nail-biting)
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pyromania
an uncontrollable desire to set fire to things
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trichotillomania
an irresistible urge to pull out your own hair
