Word Finder - mania

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Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity.

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Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; fanaticism.

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The state of abnormally elevated or irritable mood, arousal, and/or energy levels.

She has a perfect mania for counting.

Queen Maria, who had previously shown signs of religious mania, became wholly insane after 1788, owing to the deaths of Pedro III.

Jones had a mania for palace-breaking.

Venice; but on the 7th of July the assembly declared in favor of fusion with Piedmont, and Manin, who had been elected president resigned his powers to the royal com- Danicle Mania and missioners.

Du Bellay did not actually introduce the sonnet into French poetry, but he acclimatized it; and when the fashion of sonneteering became a mania he was one of the first to ridicule its excesses.

Strangely enough, in this exile - rendered still more irksome by his father's mania for solitude and by his tyrannical temper - the genius of Octave Feuillet developed.

About 1838 a speculative mania for the cultivation of silk developed itself with remarkable severity in the United States.

Hence bromide of potassium - or bromide of sodium, which is possibly somewhat safer still though not quite so certain in its action - is used as a hypnotic, as the standard anaphrodisiac, as a sedative in mania and all forms of morbid mental excitement, and in hyperaesthesia of all kinds.

She is a thorough woman, but with none of the pettinesses, subterfuges, and mental reservations of her sex; she loves wide vistas and boundless horizons and instinctively seeks them out; she is concerned for universal happiness and takes thought for the improvement of mankind - thelastinfirmity and most innocent mania of generous souls.

Lee, from the beginning of the mission to Paris, seems to have been possessed of a mania of jealousy toward Franklin, or of misunderstanding of his acts, and he tried to undermine his influence with the Continental Congress.

In a moment of candour she confessed that she was a great commenceuse- that she had a mania for beginning innumerable enterprises which she never pursued.

Shortly it may be said that he was essentially a mass of contradictions - brilliant, passionate to the point of mania, but utterly weak and unstable, capable of developing into a saint or a monster, but quite incapable of becoming an ordinary human being.

This mania attacked both men and women, young and old alike, women being more susceptible than men.

In acute mania it acts like hyoscyamine in producing sleep. In large doses stramonium is a narcotic poison producing the wellmarked stages of exaltation of function, diminution of functional activity, and later loss of function, sinking into coma and paralysis.

This worn-out septuagenarian, who prized rest above everything, imported into foreign policy the same mania for economy and the same sloth in action.

But he showed admirable judgment in his choice of subordinates; Robert of Meulan, who died in 1118, and Roger of Salisbury, who survived his master, were statesmen of no common order; and Henry was free from the mania of attending in person to every detail, which was the besetting sin of medieval sovereigns.

His most manly taste did not rise above the kind of military interest which has been defined as "corporal's mania," the passion for uniforms, pipeclay, buttons, the "tricks of parade and the froth of discipline."

However, there was a UFO mania in California in the period, probably associated the anti-communist hysteria of the time.

Use your arrow keys to control the stunt biker in Bike Mania.

In one 1990 study, 92 percent of adolescents hospitalized for mania who stopped taking the drug experienced a relapse of symptoms within 18 months of discharge, compared to 37 percent of those who stayed on lithium therapy.

The next decade saw the " railway mania."

This time period is known as "tulip mania" because of the practice of buying promissory notes in exchange for bulbs.

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This is typical of people experiencing mania or hallucinations; they are unable to grasp reality and may not realize they are exploding with anger until it's over.

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Bipolar disorder includes mania or hypomania.

There seems to have been little practical interest in spiritualism in England till 1852, when its first development took the form of a mania for table-turning.

The mother discouraged the affair, and, though Voltaire tried to avail himself of the mania for proselytizing which then distinguished France, his father stopped any idea of a match by procuring a lelire de cachet, which, however, he did not use.

He had a taste for puerile amusements, a mania for useless little domestic economies in a court where millions vanished like smoke, and a natural idleness which achieved as its masterpiece the keeping a diary from 1766 to 1792 of a life so tragic, which was yet but a foolish chronicle of trifles.

We've banished holiday boredom forever at Club Mania.

Then came the great railroad year, 1845, in which every one seemed to have a mania for new schemes.

This leaflet is for anyone who wants to find out about the medications used to treat mania.

Like all misers, he was a jealous man, and his jealousy became a frantic mania.

The hotel said that he had gone off his head and developed a religious mania; he was put in an asylum.

How many violent crimes are committed by the estimated 500,000 Americans who experience antidepressant induced mania each year?

One immediately thinks of what he himself called persecution mania.

There is such a thing as homicidal mania, or love of butchery in the abstract.

Neuroleptics are superior to placebo in the treatment of acute mania i.

There are people who are eaten up by religious mania, swept along by some malign force which they call faith.

Evaluating the efficacy of atypical antipsychotics in bipolar mania.

One early example is the speculative mania in London in 1719 and 1720, when some 190 new joint stock companies were proposed.

Many people taking it for undiagnosed bipolar depression go into mild or severe mania.

Building began at Over in 1793 at the height of " canal mania " .

The great era of railroad mania almost obliterated the old Chapel of Salford.

Episodes of mania are usually treated with antipsychotic medication (for example medicines such as chlorpromazine and haloperidol are used ).

Much has been written concerning the acts of homicidal mania called amuck (amok), which word in the vernacular means to attack.

Some trace the origin of the legend to the Children's Crusade of 1211; others to an abduction of children; and others to a dancing mania which seized upon some of the young people of Hameln who left the town on a mad pilgrimage from which they never returned.

For instance if an individual is having episodes of clinical depression but never has periods of mania, that would be categorized as a depressive or major depressive disorder.

When someone has depression along with periods of previous or current mania than the individual is diagnosed with bipolar disorder or manic depressive disorder.

Mania can cause patients to become extremely needy, manipulative, and disrupt entire hospital units.