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According to psychologists the majority of people who suffer from this disease are women that may continue their suffering for 15 years and sometimes even more.
Kleptomania was the disease that always provoked negative attitude to people sick with it because ordinary and healthy people couldn’t understand how the person can’t stop from taking something from supermarket referring such behaviour to bad education.
Kleptomania doesn’t suppose that kleptomaniac has no conscience. He/she really has it, simply he/she can’t fight his/her disease and such people must be medically treated. Kleptomania can be treated with the help of hypnosis. Unfortunately, only 15% of people ill with kleptomania turn to doctors for help.
Scientists have tried to solve the mystery of kleptomania for a long time already. This disease is unique that is why there are no theories how to fight it.
There are a lot of medical vocabularies and encyclopaedias that mention this disease. According to statistics about 5% of all burglars are kleptomaniacs in reality.
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About kleptomania
Kleptomania is not the crime, it is disease. The same way as alcoholics are extremely attracted by alcohol and people ill with bulimia can't resist food, kleptomaniac can't refuse from stealing something even if he/she gives the thing back later.
Kleptomania is annoying desire to steal things without any lucrative impulse. The stolen thing can even have no value but the pleasure is got from the proper process of stealing. Kleptomaniac understands that he/she violates law and if he/she is caught stealing, he/she sincerely feels guilty and sorry for everything he/she has done.
For example, Kate is kleptomaniac for thirty years already. After the shop visiting she has cosmetics, sweets, chocolates, etc. in her pockets. She likes to steal lip steaks. That is why she has about two hundred of them in her house. But she turned to the doctor only after being caught.
The extreme manifestation of this disease is stealing from your friends. The initial stage is stealing in supermarkets, and the easiest way is stealing in hotels, restaurants and offices where you work. According to psychiatrists such stealing starts with borrowing the pen and ends with stealing things from supermarkets. From the point of view of official science this disease is considered to be the moral impairment.
According to statistics about 40 people are caught sick with kleptomania every month in New York. The open windows of the shops, huge trade areas of supermarkets and wide assortment can provoke the desire to steal even in the ordinary healthy and educated person not to mention the burglar.