Anthomania

	Anthomania The English suffix -mania denotes an obsession with something; a mania. The suffix is used in some medical terms denoting mental disorders. It has also entered standard English and is affixed to many different words to denote enthusiasm or obsession with that subject. Cambridge Dictionary has defined mania as “a very strong interest in something that fills a person's mind or uses up all their time�Britannica Dictionarydefined mania as a mental illness in which a person becomes very emotional or excited. Psychological conditions A * Aboulomania – indecisiveness (aboulo- (Greek) meaning irresolution or indecision) * Andromania – human sexual behaviour and desire towards males in females (andro- (Greek) meaning man, men, male or masculine) Can be replaced by hypersexuality, nymphomania, cytheromania, hysteromania or aphrodisiomania. * Anglomania – England and a passion or obsession with the English (i.e. anglophile) See also anglophobia. * Arithmomania, arithmomania � ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	English Language English is a West Germanic language that developed in early medieval England and has since become a English as a lingua franca, global lingua franca. The namesake of the language is the Angles (tribe), Angles, one of the Germanic peoples that Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, migrated to Britain after its End of Roman rule in Britain, Roman occupiers left. English is the list of languages by total number of speakers, most spoken language in the world, primarily due to the global influences of the former British Empire (succeeded by the Commonwealth of Nations) and the United States. English is the list of languages by number of native speakers, third-most spoken native language, after Mandarin Chinese and Spanish language, Spanish; it is also the most widely learned second language in the world, with more second-language speakers than native speakers. English is either the official language or one of the official languages in list of countries and territories where English ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Bipolar Disorder Bipolar disorder (BD), previously known as manic depression, is a mental disorder characterized by periods of Depression (mood), depression and periods of abnormally elevated Mood (psychology), mood that each last from days to weeks, and in some cases months. If the elevated mood is severe or associated with psychosis, it is called ''mania''; if it is less severe and does not significantly affect functioning, it is called ''hypomania''. During mania, an individual behaves or feels abnormally energetic, happy, or irritable, and they often make impulsive decisions with little regard for the consequences. There is usually, but not always, a Sleep deprivation, reduced need for sleep during manic phases. During periods of depression, the individual may experience crying, have a negative outlook on life, and demonstrate poor eye contact with others. The risk of suicide is high. Over a period of 20 years, 6% of those with bipolar disorder died by suicide, with about one-third Suicide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Hypermania Hypomania (literally "under mania" or "less than mania") is a psychiatric behavioral syndrome characterized essentially by an apparently non-contextual elevation of mood (i.e., euphoria) that contributes to persistently disinhibited behavior. The individual with the condition may experience irritability, not necessarily less severe than full mania; in fact, the presence of marked irritability is a documented feature of hypomanic and mixed episodes in bipolar II disorder. According to DSM-5 criteria, hypomania is distinct from mania in that there is no significant functional impairment; mania, by DSM-5 definition, does include significant functional impairment and may have psychotic features. Characteristic behaviors of people experiencing hypomania are a notable decrease in the need for sleep, an overall increase in energy, unusual behaviors and actions, and a markedly distinctive increase in talkativeness and confidence, commonly exhibited with a flight of creative ideas. O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Gigantomania Gigantomania (from Ancient Greek γίγας ''gigas'', "giant" and μανία ''mania'', "madness") is the production of unusually and superfluously large works. Khiterer, V. ''Gigantomania''. Gale Encyclopedia of Russian History. Gigantomania is in varying degrees a feature of the political and cultural lives of prehistoric and ancient civilizations (Megalithic cultures, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Rome, Ancient China, Aztec civilization), several totalitarian regimes ( Stalin's USSR, Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Maoist China, Juche Korea), as well as of contemporary capitalist countries (notably for skyscrapers and shopping malls). Soviet Union The social engineering and modernization efforts in agriculture and industry of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin have been described as gigantomaniac. The creation of extremely large industrial complexes, farms, engineering efforts, buildings and statues was to prove the superiority of the socialist system over capitalism. These projects also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Graphomania Graphomania (from , , ; and , , ), also known as scribomania, is an obsessive impulse to write. When used in a specific psychiatric context, it labels a morbid mental condition which results in writing rambling and confused statements, often degenerating into a meaningless succession of words or even nonsense then called graphorrhea (see hypergraphia). The term "graphomania" was used in the early 19th century by Esquirol and later by Eugen Bleuler, becoming more or less common. Graphomania is related to typomania, which is obsessiveness with seeing one's name in publication or with writing for being published, excessive symbolism or typology. Outside the psychiatric definitions of graphomania and related conditions, the word is used more broadly to label the urge and need to write excessively, professionally or not. Max Nordau, in his attack of what he saw as degenerate art, frequently used the term "graphomania" to label the production of the artists he condemned (most notably ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Eleutheromania Eleutheromania, or eleutherophilia is "a mania or frantic zeal for freedom". The term is sometimes used in a psychological context, likened to a mental disorder, such as John G. Robertson's definition as a ''mad zeal or irresistible craving for freedom''.John Robertson, An Excess of Phobias and Manias, 2003 p 75 However, it is also sometimes used to simply mean a passion for liberty. Individuals espousing these ideals are called eleutheromaniacs.Current Literature - Volume 49 - Page 564, Edward Jewitt Wheeler - 1910 An antonym for the term is eleutherophobia. An individual that fears freedom is an eleutherophobe. References {{abnormal-psych-stub Mania Youth empowerment ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Erotomania Erotomania, also known as de Clérambault's syndrome, is a relatively uncommon paranoia, paranoid condition that is characterized by an individual's delusions of another person being infatuation, infatuated with them. It is listed in the DSM-5 as a subtype of a delusional disorder. Commonly, the onset of erotomania is sudden, and the course is chronic. This disorder is most often seen (though not exclusively) in female patients who are shy, dependent, and sexually inexperienced. The object of the delusion is typically a male who is unattainable due to high social or financial status, marriage, or lack of interest. The object of obsession may also be imaginary, deceased, or someone the patient has never met. Delusions of reference are common, as the erotomanic individual often perceives that they are being sent messages from the secret admirer through innocuous events such as seeing license plates from specific regions. Symptoms The core symptom of erotomania is that the individua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Egomania Egomania is a psychiatric term used to describe excessive preoccupation with one's ego, identity or selfdictionary.com and applies the same preoccupation to anyone who follows one's own ungoverned impulses, is possessed by delusions of personal greatness & grandeur and feels a lack of appreciation. Someone suffering from this extreme egocentric focus is an egomaniac. Egomania as a condition, while not a classified personality disorder, is considered psychologically abnormal. The term "egomania" is often used by laypersons in a pejorative fashion to describe an individual who is perceived as intolerably self-centered. Narcissistic personality disorder is the clinical condition that most resembles and is most often associated with this definition and usage of the term, though the two differ vastly according to the individual's responses to others. History Egomania was brought into polemical prominence at the end of the 19th century by Max Nordau, one of the first critics who per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Dromomania Dromomania was a historical psychiatric diagnosis whose primary symptom was uncontrollable urge to walk or wander. Dromomania has also been referred to as traveling fugue. Non-clinically, the term has come to be used to describe a desire for frequent traveling or wanderlust. Etymology The term ''dromomania'' is derived from combining the Greek language, Greek , meaning "running" with the root ''mania''. The term has sometimes been clinical and Medicalization, pathologizing, and other times been descriptive of unusual enthusiasm without negative or medicalizing connotations, reflecting the diverse uses of the term mania itself. In the 17th century, the term ''mania'' came to be used to describe any show of great enthusiasm for a specific activity or object. Later, it came to be used as a suffix for Greek words to refer to an irrational obsession, such as in the words ''hippomania'', and ''nymphomania''. At the same time emerged the French , such as in , which was borrowed into Eng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]