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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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Kleptomania as monomania
The science about monomania was left long time before by almost all psychiatrists while the problem of kleptomania is still of great importance. It is common case when a person who has good reputation and is authoritative having good money and good status in the society is caught stealing such small and unimportant things that we start to suspect that it is not just the stealing. But at the same time the situation of stealing is so obvious that it is impossible to argue.
These cases are mysterious and they can't be explained according to the ancient definition of the term kleptomania. In the majority of these cases the main character results to be mentally ill.
Paralytics are especially inclined to this disease that means people that suffer from the progressive paralysis. This disease has so original form that its initial stage is almost unnoticeable for other people and the destruction of intellect as well as moral one continues for long months. That is why almost all kleptomaniacs look like ordinary people. In reality stealing with no sense makes only occasional reflection of the deep changes of the personality under the influence of the brain destruction that leads to the complete madness with the lapse of time.
Other kleptomaniacs may suffer from epilepsy when during the fits people start doing the same things but when fits finish they are having the usual behaviour and don't differ from ordinary people. There are also kleptomaniacs that suffer from the light madness, hysteria, etc. Even women during period may also start stealing.