cholerophobia: An excessive fear of being a victim of cholera.
choleromania: A mania (insanity) sometimes exhibited by victims of cholera.
Insanity is hereditary:
You can get it from your children.
-Sam Levenson
When we remember we are all mad,
the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
-Mark Twain
choreomania, choromania: 1. A craze for dancing. 2. A disorder prevalent in the Middle Ages in which weird patterns of involuntary movement (hysterical chorea) superficially resembling chorea occurred. It is also called dancing chorea, epidemic chorea, jumping chorea, jumping disease, dancing mania, choromania, dancing disease, tarantism, jumping sickness, and tarentism.
During the 14th and 15th centuries such epidemics were prominent in western Germany, where they were known as Tanzwut; later they were called chorea Germanorum to distinguish the condition from chorea Anglorum or another form of chorea.
choreophobia, chorophobia: An abnormal fear of dancing that may be caused by being touched, especially by someone of the opposite sex, which may be related to sexual fears or it just might be a fear based on the inability to dance "properly" and so the person may fear being judged as a social misfit.
chrematomania: 1. Obsessive desire for money. 2. A preoccupation with creating wealth which has become a global mania.
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes;
and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
-Francis Bacon (1561-1626) 1st Baron Verulam
That money talks
I'll not deny.
I heard it once;
It said, "Goodbye."
-Richard Armour
Money is a sixth sense which makes it possible
for us to enjoy the other five.
-Richard Ney
Someone once asked John D. Rockefeller, Sr.,
"How much money does it take to make a man happy?"
His response: "Just a little more."
-Anonymous
chrematophobia, chrometophobia: A fear of having money or wealth.
This phobia is also linked to excessive concerns about cleanliness and avoidance of germs known to be carried on much-handled money. Many chrematophobics will quit handling money all together or they will begin to wear gloves as a protection against germs.
The fear of losing money is said to represent a phobia of losing the external validation of one's self-esteem that is provided by the possession of a significant amount of money.
Christ's second coming: parousiamania
chromatophobia, chromophobia: 1. An abnormal fear of specific colors. Some phobics have fears of any items that are not specifically black or white. 2. In biology, resistance to stains on the part of cells and tissues.
A neurotic is the man who builds a castle in the air.
A psychotic is the man who lives in it.
A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rents.
-Robert Web-Johnston
chronomentrophobia: A fear of clocks or other time presenting devices.
chronophobia: Discomfort concerning the duration or immensity of time (a common psychoneurosis of prison inmates).
It may be the most common anxiety disorder in prison inmates and is known as, "stir crazy" by prisoners. It is characterized by panic, anxiety, and claustrophobia. Some students may have this same anxiety during a school semester or a long academic program.
-Theodore Roethke
chrysophobia: A fear of gold.
church: ecclesiaphobia, paterophobia
cibomania: An excessive desire to eat all kinds of food.
Modern food is a "natural substance"
most of whose ingredients are
artificial flavors, colors,
and preservatives.
-Anonymous
cibophobia: An irrational fear of eating, or loathing for, food; sometimes with a particular food or class of foods.
In some religions (Hindus are vegetarian while Muslims and Jews are forbidden to eat pork), if a person eats a forbidden food by mistake, or is forced to do so, he/she may vomit or feel nauseous for days.
The only way to keep your health
is to eat what you don't want,
drink what you don't like,
and do what you'd rather not.
-Mark Twain
cingulomania: A strong desire to hold a person in one's arms.
cingulophobia: An irrational fear of holding anyone in an embrace or in one's arms.
