Dromomania, The Horrible 19th Century Illness That Caused People To Unknowingly Travel The World
<p>Humans experience different manias and afflictions that cause them to do a variety of behaviors that are unexpected or unknown to them. Sometimes these are fleeting or downright bizarre. A very strange example of this is dromomania, the insatiable compulsion to travel or wander, which experienced a craze in the 19th and early 20th century, where some people traveled far distances around the world without even realizing it.</p>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dromomania" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Dromomania </a>is a long-standing psychiatric diagnosis characterized by an uncontrollable urge to wander or walk. The term dromomania is derived from the Greek words “dromos,” meaning running, and the root mania. Initially coined in the 17th century to describe enthusiasm towards a particular activity, the term mania eventually found its most common usage as various clinical diagnoses.</p>
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