Vocab on manias Flashcards

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Dipsomaniac

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An uncontrollable compulsion to drink

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Pyromaniac

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A strange and morbid passion for fire

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Megalomaniac

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Continually obsessed with delusions of grandeur

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Monomaniac

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Unbalanced in only one area; one delusion

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Kleptomaniac

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A compulsion to steal

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Ceraunophobia

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Morbid dread os thunder

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Astraphobia

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Morbid dread of lightening

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Ophidiophobia

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Morbid dread of snakes

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Nyctophobia

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Morbid dread of darkness

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Pyrophobia

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Morbid dread of fire

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Aquaphobia

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Morbid dread of water

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Ailurophobia

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Morbid dread of cats

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Cynophobia

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Morbid dread of dogs

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Agoraphobia

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Morbid dead of open spaces

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Triskaidekaphobia

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Morbid dread of the number thirteen

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Claustrophobia

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Morbid dread of closes spaces

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Hypochondriac

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Continually complains about imaginary ills

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Amnesiac

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Suffers from loss of memory

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Somnambulist

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Walks in his sleep

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Insomniac

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Habitually afflicted with wakefulness at times when he wishes to sleep

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Manic-depression

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Has alternating moods of black depression and wild, uncontrollable exaltation or excitability

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Schizophrenic

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A split or divided personality

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Melancholic

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Has fallen into a fixed condition of despondency

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Paranoiac

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Has delusions of persecution

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Oedipus complex

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Moma’s boy

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Electra complex

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Daddy’s girl