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In psychiatry a maniac is a person who suffers the mental disease called mania. This type of personality shows an emotionally expansive behaviour, hyperirritability, excess of loquacity, hyperkinesis[?] (hyperactivity and inability to pay attention), and an excessive imagination.

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