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• ​DABBLING WITH CREATIVE OBSESSIONS Arithmomania - obsessive need to run the numbers
  
• Balletomania - obsession for the ballet
  
• Bibliomania - craze for books or reading
  
• Choreomania - dancing mania or frenzy
  
• Dinomania - mania for dancing
  
• Discomania - obsession for disco music
  
• Epomania - obsessive need to write epics
  
• Ergasiomania - pathological need to work; Ergomania - excessive desire to work; workaholism
  
• Eulogomania - obsession with eulogies
  
• Graphomania - obsession with writing
  
• Hexametromania - mania for writing in hexameter
  
• Logomania - pathological loquacity
  
• Infomania - excessive desire to fact check
  
• Melomania- mania for music
  
• Metromania - insatiable desire for writing verse
  
• Monomania - abnormal obsession with a single thought or idea
  
• Musomania - obsession with music
  
• Oligomania - obsession with thoughts or ideas
  
• Onomamania - mania for names
  
• Onomatomania - irresistible desire to repeat certain words
  
• Polkamania - craze for polka dancing
  
• Scribbleomania - obsession with scribbling
  
• Technomania - craze for technology
  
• Theatromania - craze for going to plays
  
• Typomania - craze for printing one’s lucubrations
  
• Verbomania - craze for words
  
• Writative - characterized by an inclination to write
  

CRAVING ITCHY FEET

• Agromania - intense desire to be in open spaces
  
• Catapedamania - obsession with jumping from high places
  
• Drapetomania - intense desire to run away from home
  
• Dromomania - compulsive longing for travel
  
• Ecdemomania - abnormal compulsion for wandering
  
• Eleutheromania - manic desire for freedom
  
• Nostomania - abnormal desire to go back to familiar places
  
• Planomania - abnormal desire to wander and disobey social norms
  
• Poriomania - abnormal compulsion to wander
  

INTENSE FONDNESS

• Bibliophily - love or fondness for books or reading
  
• Discophile - one who loves and studies sound recordings
  
• Ergophile - one who loves work
  
• Grammatolatry - worship of letters and words
  
• Gynotikolobomassophile - one who nibbles on women’s earlobes
  
• Lygophilia - love of darkness
  
• Nemophilist - one who loves the woods
  
• Oenophile - one who loves to indulge in wine
  
• Philalethist - lover of truth
  
• Philomath - lover of learning
  
• Philonoist - one who seeks knowledge
  
• Retrophilia - love of things of the past
  
• Sciophilous - or loving shady business
  
• Stigmatophilia - obsession with tattooing
  

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RIDING THE CRAZY TRAIN​
Guide to Understanding Your Emotions
​Your feelings and emotions matter. They mean something to you. They affect your life. They are a part of you. It’s normal. The secret is to own them and not let them own you. They do not define us.
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​GLOSSARY: Feelings and Emotions

​SECRETS OF THE HEART​
​Defining and Understanding the Meaning of Attraction, Lust, Affection, Love, Sex
​Love. We think about it, sing about it, dream about it, worry about it. When we don’t have it, we search for it; when we discover it, we don’t know what to do with it; and when we have it, we fear losing it. How to define it? Do we understand it?
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​PONDERING THE PSYCHE
A feature of psychology words and terms related to the brain, mind, and thoughts

PONDERING THE PHOBIA
Complete. collection of phobias to peruse and ponder and if you need help, check the library for the associated content from my books and self care guides on managing fear and anxiety.
​PHOBIA DICTIONARY | ANXIETY SELF CARE

CAPACITY FOR LOVE
Our capacity for love, affection & relationships
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DEFINING THE STORY OF A KISS

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