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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 is met more rarely than this word is used especially nowadays. The case of kleptomania is so rare that when doctors write their scientific works they have to search for examples in the art works. And when they can't find necessary examples even there they turn to the historical fact of the French king Henry IV that liked to steal different tings from his guests.
In real life there are much more kleptomaniacs that get to the medical centres. Usually the majority of kleptomaniacs can be met in the shops as they have a lot of things that are usually stolen by kleptomaniacs and because it is the best place where kleptomaniacs have the possibility to release their intentions.
According to statistics about 5% of all shop burglars are kleptomaniacs. Other 95% are made by the simple criminals. The part of them is teenagers that usually consider stealing to be the ritual of the adult life entering.
According to investigations the majority of patients that are sick with this disease are women and their average age is 36 years old. The usual experience of kleptomaniacs is about 16 years.
It is also necessary to mention that kleptomaniacs don't want to recognize that they are ill as well as other people that suffer from addiction. Only 15% of people recognize it and turn to doctors for treatment. But other sick people continue their stealing and even being caught by police they don't recognize that they are kleptomaniacs. Nevertheless there are exceptions.