Choreomania

Choreomania is a mental disorder in which a person develops manic ideas of dancing to music. If in ordinary mania a person feels strong emotions - happiness or strong rage, then in choreomania the main feeling that motivates action is exclusively the pleasure of dancing - not associated with any specific music.

Choreomania was first described in 1961 by the English neurologist Carl Scheer. According to his observations, men suffered this suffering more often than women. The behavior of such people was based on a mechanism similar to the mechanism of any kind of obsession. All of the patient's symptoms were activated at once.