During the rest of the summer my scholarly mania for making plaster casts and spatter prints of Catskill flowers and leaves was all but surpassed by the constantly renewed impressions of Jessica that my mind served up to me for contemplation and delight.

In one of his writings Pascal speaks of this mania for diversion as being a sign of misery and fear which man cannot endure without such opiates.

His first thought was that Mrs. Kirby, in her mania for color, had dyed a cat and that cat had somehow managed to open the refrigerator door and climb in ; ;

Johnson, in the face of the national mania over new railroad construction, and in response to the need in his own district for additional mode of transportation, found himself moderating in his opposition to them.

* Asenapine ( Saphris ) is a 5-HT2A-and D2-receptor antagonist under development for the treatment of schizophrenia and acute mania associated with bipolar disorder.

Mencken credits the postwar mania for adding "- nik " to the ends of adjectives to create nouns as beginning — not with beatnik or Sputnik — but earlier, in the pages of Li ' l Abner.

These disorders range from bipolar I disorder, featuring full-blown manic episodes, to cyclothymia, featuring less prominent hypomanic episodes, to " subsyndromal " conditions where only some of the criteria for mania or hypomania are met.

Bipolar disorder or bipolar affective disorder ( historically known as manic-depressive disorder ) is a psychiatric diagnosis for a mood disorder in which people experience disruptive mood swings that encompass a frenzied state known as mania ( or hypomania ) and, usually, symptoms of depression.

To be diagnosed with mania according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM ), a person must experience this state of elevated or irritable mood, as well as other symptoms, for at least one week, less if hospitalization is required.

Hypomania is generally a mild to moderate level of mania, characterized by optimism, pressure of speech and activity, and decreased need for sleep.

Although the first genetic linkage finding for mania was in 1969, the linkage studies have been inconsistent.

A naturalistic study from first admission for mania or mixed episode ( representing the hospitalized and therefore most severe cases ) found that 50 % achieved syndromal recovery ( no longer meeting criteria for the diagnosis ) within six weeks and 98 % within two years.

Lorazepam is most commonly used but clonazepam is sometimes prescribed for acute psychosis or mania ; their long-term use is not recommended due to risks of dependence.

Electroconvulsive therapy ( ECT ) is an effective treatment for catatonia as well as for most of the underlying causes ( e. g. psychosis, mania, depression ).

A major reason for the motorway construction " mania " of the 2000s is a previous political halt of the major Croatian highway project, today's A1, in the 1970s and 1980s under former Yugoslavia.

* 1637 – Tulip mania collapses in the United Provinces ( now the Netherlands ) as sellers could no longer find buyers for their bulb contracts.

According to film critic Pauline Kael, " Brando represented a reaction against the post-war mania for security.

The criteria for bipolar disorder do not include depressive episodes, and the presence of mania in the absence of depressive episodes is sufficient for a diagnosis.

Other often-less-obvious elements of mania include delusions ( of grandeur, potential, persecution or otherwise ), hypersensitivity, hypervigilance, hypersexuality, hyper-religiosity, hyperactivity, impulsiveness, talkativeness, an internal pressure to keep talking ( over-explanation ) or rapid speech, grandiose ideas and plans, and decreased need for sleep ( e. g. feeling rested after 3 or 4 hours of sleep ).

Although " severely elevated mood " sounds somewhat desirable and enjoyable, the experience of mania is ultimately often quite unpleasant and sometimes disturbing, if not frightening, for the person involved and for those close to them, and it may lead to impulsive behavior that may later be regretted.

The term " tulip mania " is now often used metaphorically to refer to any large economic bubble ( when asset prices deviate from intrinsic values ).

The word megalomania is derived from the Greek words " μεγαλο ": megalo -, meaning large or great, and " μανία ": mania, meaning madness, frenzy.

Two modern researchers, Peter Garber and Anne Goldgar, independently conclude that Mackay greatly exaggerated the scale and effects of the Tulip bubble, and Mike Dash, in a footnote to his modern popular history of the alleged bubble states that he believes the importance and extent of the tulip mania was overstated.

Generally, hypomania does not inhibit functioning like mania.

In Electroboy: A Memoir of Mania by Andy Behrman, he describes his experience of mania as " the most perfect prescription glasses with which to see the world ... life appears in front of you like an oversized movie screen ".

Orestes was seized by a mania for fear of the barbarians ; Pylades tended to him, acting, as described in Lucian's Amores " not only like a lover but like a father.

" Viennese society had, since the days of Austria's eclipse at Sadowa, sought to conceal the injured patriotic emotions born of that disaster by affecting a hysterical sort of gaiety which was somewhat foreign to the real character of the people ... like all forced characteristics, the new-found frivility of the Viennese degenerated quickly into a positive mania for wickedness, without, at the same time, taking on any of the picturesque artistry which conceals-and often condones-the refined viciousness of Parisians ... who, also, after 1870, went through for many years a phase of social madness similar to that which affected Austria ... Viennese society was probably the most dissipated in Europe, and so became a happy mart for ladies of that type that serves the foibles of a prince.

NG La Banda, usually considered the first timba band, was among the first groups to standardize the use of gears and song-specific piano tumbaos, as well as being the first in a series of bands to experience " mania "- like popularity in Havana during the heady days of the 1990s.

But, like The Program, this strident, unconvincing bit of movie muckraking uses our national sports mania to decoy us into sitting through a dreary lecture about ethics and moral corner-cutting.

In the course of the meetings that follow, he organizes his mania, stalking and interpreting signs ( Gradiva appears at noon, the ghost hour, and the like ).

Though, like most of his countrymen, he suffered from the mania for grandeur, and was too fond of imposing schemes out of all proportion with the resources of the state, he was undoubtedly an able and patriotic man, whose administration was beneficial to Spain.

As with dancing mania, participants apparently did not like the colour black, and women were reported to be most affected.

In April 2003, Applebaum and colleagues at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheba reported that even though anticonvulsants are often very effective in mania, and acute mania requires rapid treatment, fosphenytoin had no antimanic effect even 60 minutes after administration of doses used in status epilepticus.

The Dictionary of American Biography states that after having been deposed during a revolt in which his own family was involved, Dowie endeavoured to recover his authority via the law courts without success and that he may have been a victim of some form of mania, as he suffered from hallucinations during his last illness.

And when the child dies in Lawrence's story in a delirium that is somehow brought on by his mania to win and to make his mother rich, the manifest absurdity of such a disease and such a death does not enter into our thoughts at all.

But if the Trial did not expose the special Nazi mania so deadly to Jews as well as to anyone upon whom it happened to light, neither did it warn very effectively against the ordinary anti-Semitism of which the Nazis made such effective use in Germany and wherever else they could find it.

Railway mania had reached its zenith.

Employing this schema, major depression would be denoted D. Unipolar mania ( M ) is, depending on the authority cited, either very rare, or nonexistent with such cases actually being Md.

Individuals who experience manic episodes also commonly experience depressive episodes, or symptoms, or a mixed state in which features of both mania and depression are present at the same time.

These events are usually separated by periods of " normal " mood ; but, in some individuals, depression and mania may rapidly alternate, which is known as rapid cycling.

A relationship between mania and melancholia had long been observed, although the basis of the current conceptualisation can be traced back to French psychiatrists in the 1850s.

Hypomania can be difficult to diagnose because it may masquerade as mere happiness, though it carries the same risks as mania.

In the context of bipolar disorder, a mixed state is a condition during which symptoms of mania and clinical depression occur simultaneously.

Hypomanic episodes do not go to the full extremes of mania ( i. e., do not usually cause severe social or occupational impairment, and are without psychosis ), and this can make bipolar II more difficult to diagnose, since the hypomanic episodes may simply appear as a period of successful high productivity and is reported less frequently than a distressing, crippling depression.

It has been noted that the bipolar disorder diagnosis is officially characterised in historical terms such that, technically, anyone with a history of ( hypo ) mania and depression has bipolar disorder whatever their current or future functioning and vulnerability.

Some clinicians emphasize the need to talk with individuals experiencing mania, to develop a therapeutic alliance in support of recovery.