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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 essence
The biggest thing that was ever stolen by a person was the steamer that could carry about 630 tones. In the summer night of 1966 mister William Kennedy got to the steamer in one of the Canadian towns and the steamer drifted to the tug. This case entered the book of records.
This case fascinated people despite the fact that its essence was stealing. After all it is considered to be illegal.
For the last ten years people started to confuse the notion of burglar and the notion of kleptomaniac calling all people who steal kleptomaniacs. But it is not correct because kleptomania is the rare disorder of psyche that is why it would be wrong to think that every burglar suffers from it.
That is why kleptomaniacs don't steal steamers and huge sums of money from the governmental budget. Kleptomania is the pathological desire to steal that appears impulsively as love at first sight. And real robbery is the well-thought over case with the aim to get profits. Kleptomania stealing doesn't suppose profits getting because a person doesn't need the stolen thing at all. In other words kleptomaniac is interested in the process and burglar in the result. As it was already mentioned kleptomaniacs usually feel the pleasure from stealing but later start to feel guilty even punishing themselves for stealing these things. In such way the conflict inside the person is formed when he/she can't do anything but think about his/her stealing as he/she can neither refuse from it nor not to blame himself/herself.