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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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Social status of kleptomaniacs
Usually kleptomaniacs are the ordinary members of the society. Kleptomaniacs don't differ from the ordinary people except that sometimes they get to the shop to steal something.
Kleptomaniacs are not dangerous for the society at all. They are more dangerous for themselves because they know about their incline and are ashamed of it and are constantly afraid of the punishment for the stealing.
But the main problem is that kleptomania is the most professionally unrealised disease. For example, person who suffers from pyromania can become the fireman. Person who likes to risk can become stunt man. People with the deaden feeling of the risk are good rescuers. And kleptomaniacs have nothing to choose.
Stealing from friends and people you know is the extreme stage of the disease. Usually it leads to conflicts with friends kleptomaniacs know and not to have such conflicts they usually simply return everything they have stolen.
The main problem of kleptomaniacs' life in the society as people not always accept them as the members of society being afraid that they are going to steal something from them. That is why they may become lonely and get depression that together may lead to suicide considering and even suicide attempts.
They also may have problems with their work because they like to steal everything they see at work from the simple pen and paper to serious and important documents. So, employers consider twice before taking the kleptomaniac for work.