carnomania: An excessive desire to consume meat; sometimes to the exclusion of vegetables, etc.
carnophobia: An excessive fear of a meat diet or the mere sight of raw or cooked meat; others fear eating meat of any kind or in any form.
Part of the secret of success in life
is to eat what you like
and to let the food fight it out inside.
-Mark Twain
carpomania: 1. An over zealous consumption of fruits to the exclusion of other kinds of food for a well-balanced diet. 2. In botany, an excessive production of fruit.
carpophobia: An extreme fear of fruits which may be contaminated with insects or even insecticides, etc.
cartomania: An obsession for possessing maps to the degree that some people are willing to pay hundreds of thousands of US dollars for ancient maps (Ptolemy's atlas Geographica sold at an auction for $1.15 million).
catabythismomania: An abnormal desire, or recurrent impulse, to drown oneself.
catabythismophobia: An abnormal fear that one will drown if he/she gets into water.
catagelophobia, categelophobia, katagelophobia, kategelophobia: An excessive fear of being ridiculed or of being "put down" by someone.
This phobia is no doubt based on having a "low self-esteem". Ridicule may take the form of unfavorable comments on one's appearance, behavior, or viewpoints.
rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
-Anonymous
Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of yourself;
but do not relinquish it simply because
someone else is not sure of you.
-Stewart E. White
Self-assurance is demonstrated when a person is overweight,
over fifty, and wears shorts while mowing the lawn.
-Anonymous
catapedamania: An impulse to jump from both high and low places.
This is a pastime that prevents some people
from going mad, but it doesn't keep those
who have to live with them from
being upset by such a hobby.
-Anonymous
A publication once stated that jumping off a building
could lead to "sudden deceleration trauma."
-Anonymous
catapedaphobia: An abnormal fear of jumping from both high and low places.
This phobia may be related to a fear of heights, a fear of falling, or a fear of being injured.
It is torture to fear what you can not overcome.
-Anacharsis (c. 550 B.C.)
catastrophe: See atephobia
cathisophobia, kathisophobia, thaasophobia: An excessive fear of sitting down.
Some individuals who are very anxious and very restless are fearful of having to sit at all or of having to sit for very long periods of time.
-Evan Esar
catoptrophobia: An excessive fear of mirrors that may be based on ancient fears and superstitions about reflections.
The earliest known "looking-glasses," or mirrors, were the quiet waters of pools or ponds. Primitives believed that when they saw their own images in pools, or any other reflective surfaces, they didn't just see a reflection, but their own souls looking back at them. Some people who have dysmorphobia fear looking in mirrors because seeing their reflections provokes anxiety about their physical conditions.
Another theory says that in the past, catoptromancy, or mirror divination, was practiced and so probably encouraged fears of mirrors and images.
cats: Includes aeluromania, aelurophobia, ailourophobia, ailuromania, ailurophobia, eluromania, elurophobia, felinomania, felinophobia, galeomania, galeophobia, gatophobia
