Behind each beautiful wild fur, there is an ugly story.
It is a brutal, bloody and barbaric story.
The animal is not killed—it is tortured.
I don't think a fur coat is worth it.
-Mary Tyler Moore
doromania: A compulsion to give presents to everyone including those known by the giver and to complete strangers.
drafts, wind: See aerophobia, airphobia, anemomania, anemophobia, pneumatophobia
drapetomania: An uncontrollable desire to run away (from home, responsibilities, a bad situation, etc.).
dreams: See oneirogmophobia, oneirophobia
drinking: See these words alcoholophobia, cacohydrophobia, dipsomania, dipsomanophobia, oenomania, oenophobia, phobodipsia, posiomania, potomania, potophobia
dromomania: A mania for roaming, running, or traveling; an intense enthusiasm or compulsion to travel; wanderlust.
Too often, people travel around the world looking for things
they think they need and return home to find
that what they were looking for was there all the time.
-Anonymous
dromophobia: An abnormal fear of crossing streets or of wandering or roaming.
Such phobics are afraid of being hit by fast-moving cars or of slipping during the process of crossing the street and thus being injured or killed by the various forms of street vehicles (a car, a bus, a truck, etc.).
drowning: See catabythismomania, catabythismophobia, nebulaphobia
drugs: Includes letheomania, lethomania, narcomania, narcosomania, pharmacomania, pharmacophobia
drunkeness: Includes such words as dipsomania, dipsomanophobia, hygrophobia, methomania, methyphobia
dryness: See xerophobia
dung, feces: See copromania, coprophobia
dust: See amathophobia, koniophobia
dysmorphomania: 1. The delusional conviction that one is physically deformed or otherwise abnormal. 2. An abnormal dread of deformity, particularly in others.
dysmorphophobia: A persistent complaint of a perceived bodily defect that is not noticeable to others; occasionally several parts of the body are involved.
Dysmorphophobics have anxiety about their faces, their breasts, or hips, etc.; of body or limbs being wrinkled, misshapened, too large, too small; or even of unpleasant odors coming from body sweat or from their breaths, etc.
Sufferers tend to believe that others will comment adversely about their appearance or body odors and so such victims try to avoid the company of possible critics (whether real or imaginary). They may be unable to look others in the eye and try to hide the body part of which they are self-conscious, growing their hair or wearing a hat to conceal imagined baldness or misshapened ears, wearing dark glasses to hide the shapes of their eyes, or avoid swimming so others will not see their mostly nude bodies. Some people will not even look in mirrors because their reflections upset them or they will wash zealously to remove bodily odor which is imperceptible to others.
dystychiphobia: The abnormal fear of accidents.
People who suffer with this anxiety are afraid that they might injure themselves or other people or damage property or the environment. Accident phobics try to avoid risky jobs, atmospheric conditions, a tiring work schedule, and equipment failure. The fear of accidents is related to a phobia of decision making and a fear of making errors.
The difference between cowards and heroes is that
cowards fear what they face,
and heroes face what they fear.
-Dr. Mardy Grothe
