[iBook]

I was looking up definitions on Manias and Obsessions and came across some funny ones and some I think we all have to some extent. Here they are alphabetically. Let me know if I forgot any good ones.

ablutomania
mania for washing oneself

aboulomania
pathological indecisiveness

agromania
intense desire to be in open spaces

anthomania
obsession with flowers

aphrodisiomania
abnormal sexual interest

arithmomania
obsessive preoccupation with numbers

balletomania
abnormal fondness for ballet

bibliomania
craze for books or reading

bruxomania
compulsion for grinding teeth

cacodemomania
pathological belief that one is inhabited by an evil spirit

catapedamania (my favorite)
obsession with jumping from high places

chinamania
obsession with collecting china

choreomania
dancing mania or frenzy

clinomania
excessive desire to stay in bed

copromania
obsession with feces

dacnomania
obsession with killing

demonomania
pathological belief that one is possessed by demons

dinomania
mania for dancing

dipsomania
abnormal craving for alcohol

discomania
obsession for disco music

doramania
obsession with owning furs

doromania
obsession with giving gifts

drapetomania
intense desire to run away from home

dromomania
compulsive longing for travel

ecdemomania
abnormal compulsion for wandering

egomania
irrational self-centered attitude or self-worship

eleutheromania
manic desire for freedom

empleomania
mania for holding public office

enosimania
pathological belief that one has sinned

entheomania
abnormal belief that one is divinely inspired

epomania
craze for writing epics

ergasiomania
excessive desire to work; ergomania

ergomania
excessive desire to work; workaholism

erotomania
abnormally powerful sex drive

etheromania
craving for ether

ethnomania
obsessive devotion to one's own people

eulogomania
obsessive craze for eulogies

flagellomania
abnormal enthusiasm for flogging

florimania
craze for flowers

francomania
craze or obsession with France and the French

gallomania
craze or obsession with France and the French

gamomania
obsession with issuing odd marriage proposals

Graecomania
obsession with Greece and the Greeks

graphomania
obsession with writing

gynaecomania
abnormal sexual obsession with women

habromania
insanity featuring cheerful delusions

hagiomania
mania for sainthood

Hellenomania
obsession with Greece and the Greeks; Graecomania

hexametromania
mania for writing in hexameter

hieromania
pathological religious visions or delusions

hippomania
obsession with horses

hydromania
irrational craving for water

hylomania
excessive tendency towards materialism

hypermania
severe mania

hypomania
minor mania

iconomania
obsession with icons or portraits

idolomania
obsession or devotion to idols

infomania
excessive devotion to accumulating facts

islomania
craze or obsession for islands

Italomania
obsession with Italy or Italians

kleptomania
irrational predilection for stealing

logomania
pathological loquacity

lypemania
extreme pathological mournfulness

macromania
delusion that objects are larger than natural size

megalomania
abnormal tendency towards grand or grandiose behaviour

melomania
craze for music

methomania
morbid craving for alcohol

metromania
insatiable desire for writing verse

micromania
pathological self-deprecation or belief that one is very small

monomania
abnormal obsession with a single thought or idea

morphinomania
habitual craving or desire for morphine

musomania
obsession with music

mythomania
lying or exaggerating to an abnormal extent

narcomania
uncontrollable craving for narcotics

necromania
sexual obsession with dead bodies; necrophilia

nosomania
delusion of suffering from a disease

nostomania
abnormal desire to go back to familiar places

nymphomania
excessive or crazed sexual desire

oenomania
obsession or craze for wine

oligomania
obsession with a few thoughts or ideas

oniomania
mania for making purchases

onomamania
mania for names

onomatomania
irresistible desire to repeat certain words

onychotillomania
compulsive picking at the fingernails

opiomania
craving for opium

opsomania
abnormal love for one kind of food

orchidomania
abnormal obsession with orchids

parousiamania
obsession with the second coming of Christ

pathomania
moral insanity

peotillomania
abnormal compulsion for pulling on the penis

phagomania
excessive desire for food or eating

phaneromania
habit of biting one’s nails

pharmacomania
abnormal obsession with trying drugs

phonomania
pathological tendency to murder

photomania
pathological desire for light

phyllomania (what?)
excessive or abnormal production of leaves

phytomania
obsession with collecting plants

planomania
abnormal desire to wander and disobey social norms

plutomania
mania for money

polemomania
mania for war

politicomania
mania for politics

polkamania
craze for polka dancing

polymania
mania affecting several different mental faculties

poriomania
abnormal compulsion to wander

pornomania
obsession with pornography

potichomania
craze for imitating Oriental porcelain

potomania
abnormal desire to drink alcohol

pseudomania
irrational predilection for lying

pteridomania
passion for ferns

pyromania
craze for starting fires

rhinotillexomania
compulsive nose picking

rinkomania
obsession with skating

satyromania
abnormally great male sexual desire; satyriasis

scribbleomania
obsession with scribbling

sebastomania
religious insanity

sitiomania
morbid aversion to food

sophomania
delusion that one is incredibly intelligent

squandermania
irrational propensity for spending money wastefully

stampomania
obsession with stamp-collecting

syphilomania
pathological belief that one is afflicted with syphilis

technomania
craze for technology

Teutomania
obsession with Teutonic or German things

thanatomania
belief that one has been affected by death magic, and resulting illness

theatromania
craze for going to plays

theomania
belief that one is a god

timbromania
craze for stamp collecting

tomomania
irrational predilection for performing surgery

toxicomania
morbid craving for poisons

trichotillomania
neurosis where patient pulls out own hair

tulipomania
obsession with tulips

typhomania
delirious state resulting from typhus fever

typomania
craze for printing one’s lucubrations

uranomania
obsession with the idea of divinity

verbomania
craze for words

xenomania
inordinate attachment to foreign things

zoomania
insane fondness for animals

So which ones are you?

[demograph68]

Originally posted by iBook:
So which ones are you?

All of them!

[MilkmanDan]

postaphobia: fear of overly long web forum posts.

[ManOfSteal]

Originally posted by MilkmanDan:
postaphobia: fear of overly long web forum posts.

[turtle777]

Let's have pictures with each one. Here is mine

Originally posted by iBook:
rhinotillexomania
compulsive nose picking

-t

[urbatronik]

dinomania. mania for dancing

[wolfen]

Originally posted by iBook:
So which ones are you?

aphrodisiomania
abnormal sexual interest

sophomania
delusion that one is incredibly intelligent

drapetomania
intense desire to run away from home

dromomania
compulsive longing for travel

oligomania
obsession with a few thoughts or ideas