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Madness or obsessions with different subjects include:
Psychological conditions
- arithmomania, counting
- bibliomania, collecting books
- dermatillomania, picking at the skin
- dipsomania, alcohol
- drapetomania, fleeing from slavery
- erotomania, being loved by someone else
- hypomania, general mania, a symptom of manic-depression
- islomania, islands
- kleptomania, stealing
- megalomania, wealth and power
- monomania, a single object, type of object, or concept.
- mythomania, lying
- nymphomania, having sex (women)
- pyromania, fire or starting fires
- theomania, belief that one is God or chosen by God for a specific mission.
- trichotillomania, hair removal
Non-psychological conditions
- decalcomania, transferring pictures, an artistic technique
Joke and fictional manias
- beatlemania, the Beatles
- Hulkamania, World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) wrestler Hulk Hogan's Catchphrase
- Sabumania, popularity and fan following of Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) professional wrestler Sabu, known worldwide as the Homicidal, Genocidal, Suicidal, Death-Defying Maniac
- pottermania, Harry Potter
- Trudeaumania, the Canadian politician Pierre Trudeau
- tulipomania, a metaphor for an economic bubble
- WrestleMania, the annual flagship pay-per-view event of World Wrestling Entertainment
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