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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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Kleptomaniac or thief?
Canadian scientists made an interesting observations in the result of which interesting conclusions were made. The American Association of psychiatrist used not rather correct determination of the term kleptomania. That is why many people caught stealing were thought to be kleptomaniacs.
20% of shop thieves are kleptomaniacs but the rest of them are real thieves. Lawyers not considering the medical side of this disease called almost all people that were caught stealing kleptomaniacs. And even such criminals as swindlers and burglars started to be also called kleptomaniacs. And it was done on base of criminal's words. They claimed that they didn't try to steal something to get profits but were interested in the process. Rather convenient – not a thief but the ill person.
Kleptomaniacs always feel guilty after stealing because they are honest people in reality but thieves are not. And kleptomaniacs differ by the fact that they feel lonely and the unconscious desire to revenge appears and its extreme form when kleptomaniacs even start to punish themselves.
Not typical thief that is kleptomaniac is the person who can't control the fits of stealing and during other time such people are good and kind. And psychiatrists insist that law is not too severe with such people. When kleptomaniac feels difficulties, has some problems, looses work or has conflicts with other people he/she starts to release his/her emotions and feeling with the help of stealing.