Mania: An
abnormally elevated mood state characterized by such symptoms as inappropriate
elation, increased irritability, severe insomnia, grandiose notions, increased
speed and/or volume of speech, disconnected and racing thoughts, increased
sexual desire, markedly increased energy and activity level, poor judgment, and
inappropriate social behavior. A mild form in mania that does not require
hospitalization is termed hypomania. Mania that also features symptoms of
depression is called mixed mania.
Causes and Symptoms of Mania:
Common signs and symptoms of mania
include:
v Feeling unusually “high” and optimistic OR extremely irritable
v Unrealistic, grandiose beliefs about one’s abilities or powers
v Sleeping very little, but feeling extremely energetic
v Talking so rapidly that others can’t keep up
v Racing thoughts jumping quickly from one idea to the next
v Highly distractible, unable to concentrate
v Impaired judgment and impulsiveness
v Acting recklessly without thinking about the consequences
v Delusions and hallucinations
List of words that containing Mania:
v Ablutomania:- mania for washing oneself
v Aboulomania:-pathological
indecisiveness
v Agromania:- intense desire to be in open spaces
v Andromania:- nymphomania
v Anglomania:- craze or obsession with England and the
English
v Anthomania:- obsession with flowers
v Aphrodisiomania:- abnormal
sexual interest
v Arithmomania:- obsessive
preoccupation with numbers
v Balletomania:- abnormal fondness for
ballet
v Bibliomania:- craze for books or
reading
v Bruxomania:- compulsion for
grinding teeth
v Cacodemomania:- pathological
belief that one is inhabited by an evil spirit
v Catapedamania:- obsession
with jumping from high places
v Chinamania:- obsession with collecting china
v Choreomania:- dancing mania or
frenzy
v Clinomania:- excessive desire to stay in bed
v Copromania:- obsession with feces
v Cytheromania:- nymphomania
v Dacnomania:- obsession with killing
v Demonomania:- pathological belief
that one is possessed by demons
v Dinomania:- mania for dancing
v Dipsomania:- abnormal craving for alcohol
v Discomania:- obsession for disco music
v Doramania:- obsession with owning
furs
v Doromania:- obsession with giving
gifts
v Drapetomania:- intense desire to run
away from home
v Dromomania:- compulsive longing
for travel
v Ecdemomania:- abnormal compulsion
for wandering
v Egomania:- irrational
self-centered attitude or self-worship
v Eleutheromania:- manic
desire for freedom
v Empleomania:- mania for
holding public office
v Enosimania:- pathological belief
that one has sinned
v Entheomania:- abnormal belief that
one is divinely inspired
v Epomania:- craze for writing
epics
v Ergasiomania:- excessive desire to
work - ergomania
v Ergomania:- excessive desire to
work - workaholism
v Erotomania:- abnormally powerful
sex drive
v Etheromania:- craving for ether
v Ethnomania:- obsessive devotion to one's own people
v Eulogomania:- obsessive craze for
eulogies
v Flagellomania:- abnormal
enthusiasm for flogging
v Florimania:- craze for flowers
v Francomania:- craze or obsession
with France and the French
v Gallomania:- craze or obsession
with France and the French
v Gamomania:-obsession with issuing
odd marriage proposals
v Graecomania:-obsession with Greece
and the Greeks
v Graphomania:-obsession with writing
v Gynaecomania:-abnormal sexual
obsession with women
v Habromania:- insanity featuring cheerful delusions
v Hagiomania:- mania for sainthood
v Hellenomania:-obsession with Greece
and the Greeks; Graecomania
v Hexametromania:-mania for
writing in hexameter
v Hieromania:-pathological religious
visions or delusions
v Hippomania:- obsession with horses
v Hydromania:- irrational craving
for water
v Hylomania:-excessive tendency
towards materialism
v Hypermania:- severe mania
v Hypomania:- minor mania
v Hysteromania:-nymphomania
v Iconomania:- obsession with icons or portraits
v Idolomania:- obsession or devotion
to idols
v Infomania:- excessive devotion to
accumulating facts
v Islomania:- craze or obsession
for islands
v Italomania:-obsession with Italy
or Italians
v Kleptomania:- irrational predilection for stealing
v Klopemania:- kleptomania
v Logomania:- pathological loquacity
v Lypemania:- extreme pathological mournfulness
v Macromania:- delusion that objects are larger than natural
size
v Megalomania:-abnormal tendency
towards grand or grandiose behaviour
v Melomania:-craze for music
v Methomania:- morbid craving for alcohol
v Metromania:- insatiable desire for writing verse
v Micromania:- pathological self-deprecation or belief that
one is very small
v Monomania:- abnormal obsession with a single thought or
idea
v Morphinomani:- a habitual craving or
desire for morphine
v Musomania:- obsession with music
v Mythomania:- lying or exaggerating to an abnormal extent
v Narcomania:- uncontrollable craving for narcotics
v Necromania:- sexual obsession with dead bodies; necrophilia
v Nosomania:- delusion of suffering
from a disease
v Nostomania:- abnormal desire to go back to familiar places
v Nymphomania:-excessive or crazed
sexual desire
v Oenomania:- obsession or craze
for wine
v Oligomania:- obsession with a few thoughts or ideas
v Oniomania:- mania for making purchases
v Onomamania:- mania for names
v Onomatomania:- irresistible
desire to repeat certain words
v Onychotillomania:- compulsive picking at the fingernails
v Opiomania:- craving for opium
v Opsomania:- abnormal love for one kind of food
v Orchidomania:-abnormal obsession
with orchids
v Parousiamania:-obsession
with the second coming of Christ
v Pathomania:- moral insanity
v Peotillomania:- abnormal
compulsion for pulling on the penis
v Phagomania:- excessive desire for food or eating
v Phaneromania:- habit of biting one’s
nails
v Pharmacomania:- abnormal
obsession with trying drugs
v Phonomania:- pathological tendency to murder
v Photomania:- pathological desire for light
v Phyllomania:- excessive or abnormal production of leaves
v Phytomania:- obsession with collecting plants
v Planomania:- abnormal desire to wander and disobey social
norms
v Plutomania:- mania for money
v Polemomania:-mania for war
v Politicomania:- mania for
politics
v Polkamania:- craze for polka dancing
v Polymania:- mania affecting
several different mental faculties
v Poriomania:- abnormal compulsion to wander
v Pornomania:- obsession with pornography
v Potichomania:-craze for imitating
Oriental porcelain
v Potomania:- abnormal desire to
drink alcohol
v Pseudomania:- irrational
predilection for lying
v Pteridomania:-passion for ferns
v Pyromania:- craze for starting fires
v Rhinotillexomania:- compulsive nose picking
v Rinkomania:- obsession with skating
v Satyromania:- abnormally great male sexual desire; satyriasis
v Scribbleomania:- obsession
with scribbling
v Sebastomania:- religious insanity
v Sitiomania:- morbid aversion to
food
v Sophomania:- delusion that one is incredibly intelligent
v Squandermania:- irrational
propensity for spending money wastefully
v Stampomania:-obsession with
stamp-collecting
v Syphilomania:- pathological belief
that one is afflicted with syphilis
v Technomania:- craze for technology
v Teutomania:- obsession with Teutonic or German things
v Thanatomania:-belief that one has
been affected by death magic, and resulting illness
v Theatromania:-craze for going to
plays
v Theomania:- belief that one is a god
v Timbromania:-craze for stamp
collecting
v Tomomania:- irrational predilection for performing surgery
v Toxicomania:- morbid craving for poisons
v Trichotillomania:- neurosis
where patient pulls out own hair
v Tulipomania:- obsession with tulips
v Typhomania:- delirious state resulting from typhus fever
v Typomania:- craze for printing one’s lucubrations
v Uranomania:- obsession with the idea of divinity
v Verbomania:- craze for words
v Xenomania:- inordinate attachment to foreign things
v Zoomania:- insane fondness for
animals
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