Manias and Madness

Dr. Ravi P. Reddy (India)
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  1. agromania
    an intense desire to be alone or out in the open
  2. balletomania
    extraordinary enthusiasm for ballets
  3. bibliomania
    preoccupation with the acquisition and possession of books
  4. decalcomania
    either a design that is fixed to some surface or a paper bearing the design which is to be transferred to the surface
  5. dipsomania
    an intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess
  6. egomania
    intense love for yourself and concern for your own needs
  7. kleptomania
    an impulse to steal in the absence of any economic motive
  8. logomania
    pathologically excessive (and often incoherent) talking
  9. mania
    an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action
  10. megalomania
    a psychological state characterized by delusions of grandeur
  11. monomania
    an unhealthy obsession or preoccupation with one thing
  12. necromania
    an irresistible sexual attraction to dead bodies
  13. nymphomania
    abnormally intense sexual desire in women
  14. onomatomania
    obsession with a particular word which the person uses repeatedly or which intrudes into consciousness
  15. phaneromania
    an irresistible desire to pick at superficial body parts
  16. potomania
    an intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess
  17. pyromania
    an uncontrollable desire to set fire to things
  18. squandermania
    prodigious squandering (usually by a government)
  19. trichotillomania
    an irresistible urge to pull out your own hair
Created on Sat Feb 09 19:57:50 EST 2013 (updated Thu Feb 14 12:24:53 EST 2013)

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