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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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Kleptomaniacs
If you think that kleptomaniacs are those ladies that have no money to buy things you are mistaking. It may seem strange but rich people are more often sick with kleptomania than any other people. They are good and well-educated citizens that that are very polite and are never rude with shop assistants, etc.
Even the list of the most favourite kleptomaniac's stolen things can be made. The first place is taken by perfumes, the second one by tights and the third one is traditionally taken by food products.
Some psychologists compare kleptomaniacs with animals that have stealing instinct. For example, it is known that ravens steal the shinning things; rats get different things into their holes not knowing why they need them. In such way the prehensile reflex is working saying take the thing and escape, it may be useful in future.
But usually law and justice decide whether it is disease or violation of law. And there is the paradox about it. Real burglars sometimes say they are kleptomaniacs to avoid serious punishment. But real kleptomaniacs will never confess they are sick with this disease because they don't realise it. It is easier for them to say they are criminals than sick.
The main difference between kleptomaniac and criminal is that the aim of criminal is to get profits from the stolen things while kleptomaniacs just like the process of stealing. Kleptomaniacs are stealing alone without any plan thought over beforehand. In other cases it is not kleptomania.