List of Addictive Substances

By Natasha Tracy

https://www.healthyplace.com/addictions/addictions-information/types-of-addiction-list-of-addictions

Substance use disorders in the 5 provide a list of addictions relating to the following substances:¹

Alcohol
Tobacco
Opioids (like heroin)
Prescription drugs (sedatives, hypnotics, or anxiolytics like sleeping pills and tranquilizers)
Cocaine
Cannabis (marijuana)
Amphetamines (like methamphetamine, known as meth)
Hallucinogens
Inhalants
Phencyclidine (known as PCP or Angeldust)
Other unspecified substances

List of Impulse Control Disorders

The DSM-5 lists disorders where impulses cannot be resisted, which could be considered a type of addiction. The following is a list of the recognized impulse control disorders:²

Intermittent explosive disorder (compulsive aggressive and assaultive acts)
Kleptomania (compulsive stealing)
Pyromania (compulsive setting of fires)
Gambling

List of Addictions – Behavioral

It has been suggested one of the types of addictions is behavioral addiction. The following is a list of behaviors that have been noted to be addictive:³

Food (eating)
Sex
Pornography (attaining, viewing)
Using computers / the internet
Playing video games
Working
Exercising
Spiritual obsession (as opposed to religious devotion)
Pain (seeking)
Cutting
Shopping

The following was compiled from multiple sources:

https://medlineplus.gov/mentaldisorders.html

https://www.verywellmind.com/a-list-of-psychological-disorders-2794776

https://mentalhealthcenter.com/alphabetical-list-of-mental-disorders/

https://www.psy-ed.com/wpblog/mental-disorders/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK361952/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mental_disorders

Adult Mental Disorders

Common Disorders

· Alcohol or Substance Use Disorder

· Anxiety Disorders

Generalized Anxiety Disorder
- Panic Disorder
- Phobias
- Social Anxiety Disorder

· Adult Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD/ADD)

· Bipolar Disorder

Major Depressive Episode
- Hypomanic Episode
- Manic Episode
- Mixed Specifier (Formerly Mixed Episode)

· Depression

Postpartum Depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
  See Depressive Disorder with Seasonal Pattern)

· Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

· Opioid Use Disorder Symptoms

· Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

· Schizophrenia Education Guide

Dissociative Disorders

Sexual & Paraphilic Disorders

Dyspareunia
Erectile Disorder (ED)
Exhibitionistic Disorder
Female & Male Orgasmic Disorders
Female Sexual Arousal Disorder
Fetishistic Disorder
Frotteuristic Disorder
Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder
Persistent Genital Arousal Disorder (PGAD; not a recognized diagnostic category at this time)
Premature (Early) Ejaculation
Sex Addiction (not a recognized diagnostic category at this time)
Sexual Masochism and Sadism
Transvestic Disorder
Vaginismus
Voyeuristic Disorder

Sleep & Wake Disorders

Childhood Mental Disorders

Childhood disorders, often labeled as developmental disorders or learning disorders, most often occur and are diagnosed when the child is of school-age. Although some adults may also relate to some of the symptoms of these disorders, typically the disorder’s symptoms need to have first appeared at some point in the person’s childhood.

Personality Disorders

These disorders typically aren’t diagnosed until an individual is a young adult, often not until their 20’s or even 30’s. Most individuals with personality disorders lead pretty normal lives and often only seek psychotherapeutic treatment during times of increased stress or social demands. Most people can relate to some, or all of the personality traits listed; the difference is that it does not affect most people’s daily functioning to the same degree it might someone diagnosed with one of these disorders. Personality disorders tend to be an integral part of a person, and therefore, are difficult to treat or “cure.” Learn more about personality disorders and personality traits…

Other Mental Disorders & Concerns

Manias and Obsessions

Sometimes, when I look over what I’ve created in the Phrontistery, I start to think I’m more than a bit crazy, and must be suffering from verbomania. Still, I probably don’t officially have any of the 142 manias or obsessions listed below. Some of these mania words represent clinical illnesses, while others are merely facetious. They show the range of unusual and weird things with which one can become obsessed. These words are the ones found in major dictionaries; no doubt there are many others, given that, like phobias, manias are easy to form by taking a root word from Latin or Greek and affixing the suffix ‘mania’. Also, my word list of types of love and attraction or ‘philias’, some of which indicate pathological attractions.

Word	Definition
ablutomania	mania for washing oneself
aboulomania	pathological indecisiveness
agromania	intense desire to be in open spaces
andromania	nymphomania
anglomania	craze or obsession with England and the English
anthomania	obsession with flowers
aphrodisiomania	abnormal sexual interest
arithmomania	obsessive preoccupation with numbers
balletomania	abnormal fondness for ballet
bibliomania	craze for books or reading
bruxomania	compulsion for grinding teeth
cacodemomania	pathological belief that one is inhabited by an evil spirit
catapedamania	obsession with jumping from high places
chinamania	obsession with collecting china
choreomania	dancing mania or frenzy
clinomania	excessive desire to stay in bed
copromania	obsession with feces
cytheromania	nymphomania
dacnomania	obsession with killing
demonomania	pathological belief that one is possessed by demons
dinomania	mania for dancing
dipsomania	abnormal craving for alcohol
discomania	obsession for disco music
doramania	obsession with owning furs
doromania	obsession with giving gifts
drapetomania	intense desire to run away from home
dromomania	compulsive longing for travel
ecdemomania	abnormal compulsion for wandering
egomania	irrational self-centered attitude or self-worship
eleutheromania	manic desire for freedom
empleomania	mania for holding public office
enosimania	pathological belief that one has sinned
entheomania	abnormal belief that one is divinely inspired
epomania	craze for writing epics
ergasiomania	excessive desire to work; ergomania
ergomania	excessive desire to work; workaholism
erotomania	abnormally powerful sex drive
etheromania	craving for ether
ethnomania	obsessive devotion to one’s own people
eulogomania	obsessive craze for eulogies
flagellomania	abnormal enthusiasm for flogging
florimania	craze for flowers
francomania	craze or obsession with France and the French
gallomania	craze or obsession with France and the French
gamomania	obsession with issuing odd marriage proposals
Graecomania	obsession with Greece and the Greeks
graphomania	obsession with writing
gynaecomania	abnormal sexual obsession with women
habromania	insanity featuring cheerful delusions
hagiomania	mania for sainthood
Hellenomania	obsession with Greece and the Greeks; Graecomania
hexametromania	mania for writing in hexameter
hieromania	pathological religious visions or delusions
hippomania	obsession with horses
hydromania	irrational craving for water
hylomania	excessive tendency towards materialism
hypermania	severe mania
hypomania	minor mania
hysteromania	nymphomania
iconomania	obsession with icons or portraits
idolomania	obsession or devotion to idols
infomania	excessive devotion to accumulating facts
islomania	craze or obsession for islands
Italomania	obsession with Italy or Italians
kleptomania	irrational predilection for stealing
klopemania	kleptomania
logomania	pathological loquacity
lypemania	extreme pathological mournfulness
macromania	delusion that objects are larger than natural size
megalomania	abnormal tendency towards grand or grandiose behaviour
melomania	craze for music
methomania	morbid craving for alcohol
metromania	insatiable desire for writing verse
micromania	pathological self-deprecation or belief that one is very small
monomania	abnormal obsession with a single thought or idea
morphinomania	habitual craving or desire for morphine
musomania	obsession with music
mythomania	lying or exaggerating to an abnormal extent
narcomania	uncontrollable craving for narcotics
necromania	sexual obsession with dead bodies; necrophilia
nosomania	delusion of suffering from a disease
nostomania	abnormal desire to go back to familiar places
nymphomania	excessive or crazed sexual desire
oenomania	obsession or craze for wine
oligomania	obsession with a few thoughts or ideas
oniomania	mania for making purchases
onomamania	mania for names
onomatomania	irresistible desire to repeat certain words
onychotillomania	compulsive picking at the fingernails
opiomania	craving for opium
opsomania	abnormal love for one kind of food
orchidomania	abnormal obsession with orchids
parousiamania	obsession with the second coming of Christ
pathomania	moral insanity
peotillomania	abnormal compulsion for pulling on the penis
phagomania	excessive desire for food or eating
phaneromania	habit of biting one’s nails
pharmacomania	abnormal obsession with trying drugs
phonomania	pathological tendency to murder
photomania	pathological desire for light
phyllomania	excessive or abnormal production of leaves
phytomania	obsession with collecting plants
planomania	abnormal desire to wander and disobey social norms
plutomania	mania for money
polemomania	mania for war
politicomania	mania for politics
polkamania	craze for polka dancing
polymania	mania affecting several different mental faculties
poriomania	abnormal compulsion to wander
pornomania	obsession with pornography
potichomania	craze for imitating Oriental porcelain
potomania	abnormal desire to drink alcohol
pseudomania	irrational predilection for lying
pteridomania	passion for ferns
pyromania	craze for starting fires
rhinotillexomania	compulsive nose picking
rinkomania	obsession with skating
satyromania	abnormally great male sexual desire; satyriasis
scribbleomania	obsession with scribbling
sebastomania	religious insanity
sitiomania	morbid aversion to food
sophomania	delusion that one is incredibly intelligent
squandermania	irrational propensity for spending money wastefully
stampomania	obsession with stamp-collecting
syphilomania	pathological belief that one is afflicted with syphilis
technomania	craze for technology
Teutomania	obsession with Teutonic or German things
thanatomania	belief that one has been affected by death magic, and resulting illness
theatromania	craze for going to plays
theomania	belief that one is a god
timbromania	craze for stamp collecting
tomomania	irrational predilection for performing surgery
toxicomania	morbid craving for poisons
trichotillomania	neurosis where patient pulls out own hair
tulipomania	obsession with tulips
typhomania	delirious state resulting from typhus fever
typomania	craze for printing one’s lucubrations
uranomania	obsession with the idea of divinity
verbomania	craze for words
xenomania	inordinate attachment to foreign things
zoomania	insane fondness for animals

Alergies

Alcohol allergy

Allergic rhinitis (hay fever)

Anaphylaxis

Animal/pet allergy

Cosmetic allergy

Drug allergy

Dust mite allergy

Food allergy

Insect sting allergy

Latex allergy

Mold allergy

Oral allergy syndrome

Pollen allergy