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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 treatment
Kleptomania is addiction. But nowadays the majority of addictions are treated what can't be said about kleptomania. Of course there are certain methods elaborated to fight against this problem nevertheless some of them are not efficient at all.
In the cases when there is sexual background of the disease doctors use psychotherapy and hormonal agents. There is no success. But there are still some spheres in which doctors work to elaborate the treatment system. The main problem in it is that doctors don't know where addiction comes from.
American doctors tested the medicine that must treat kleptomaniacs. This is not new medicine and it was used for alcoholics and drug addicts before. Like alcoholics kleptomaniacs feel guilty and are inclined to depression and sometimes even make the attempts of suicide. There is no certain way to treat addictions and they can't go away by themselves because they have biological support.
Kleptomania is considered to be the disease that is practically not treated at all. Where does this disease come from? There are medicines that influence the receptors of the brain causing the feeling of pleasure killing the desire to steal and to do other negative things.
Some doctors try to treat kleptomania as well as other addictions with the help of hypnosis. By the way the majority of people coincide that this is one of the most effective ways of treatment.
Investigations in this field are very complicated because kleptomaniacs refuse to help doctors in their work due to social and policy obstacles.