Dromomania

The poriomania (Greek: πορεία, Poreia = " travel " ) or as Dromomanie (Greek: δρόμος, dromos = " running " ) or Fugue (French: " Escape " ), is an impulse control disorder, a compulsive unmediated running away without understanding reason and without a tangible goal includes. In addition, it shows all the hallmarks of a dissociative amnesia ( F44.0 ).

The compulsive runaway can occur as a result of a neurosis, depression, mania, schizophrenia and / or other mental disorders and persons with cognitive disabilities and age-related dementia. It occurs sporadically even before in children and young adolescents. Particularly well known is the compulsive Wander-/Fluchtbereitschaft in people with Alzheimer 's disease.

Jean -Martin Charcot described in 1888 in his Leçons du mardi 37- year-old letter carrier which three episodes of hours of wandering in Paris by living with each complete amnesia. It is thought today that it was a non- convulsive status epilepticus with Fugue status ( poriomania ).

Danger threatens the fugitives in their wanderings particularly through the traffic, hypothermia or falls. Most of those affected are unable to find their way home, they can hardly explain their motives. The poriomania is not easy to explain with wanderlust, curiosity or desire for adventure. Most outliers suffer in their excursions also from anxiety and homesickness and are unlikely to be able to reverse. The attempts to break out regularly repeated, the corresponding stimuli often remain hidden for long.