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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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The unique disease
Kleptomania comes from the Greek words "klepto" that means "to steal", "to rob" and "mania" that means "foolhardiness". This disease is known to psychologists for a long time. 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.
According to scientists, kleptomaniacs get the pleasure from stealing and such person lives wanting to get additional doze. This disease is reflected differently in different people. For example, kleptomaniac may not steal for 5-6 years but after the stress in his/her life he/she may start to steal to get rid of the stress. For example, one woman after the conflict with her boyfriend went to the post office to post the letter. She noticed a woman that was sitting near-by and signing some documents. And when this woman got up and went to the next room because her friend asked her to come to her, the woman couldn't resist. She went to the table of the woman and took all documents putting them under the shirt and escaped from the post office.
She didn't need documents, but the risk to be caught brought her the pleasure and in such way she got rid of the stress got from the conflict with her boyfriend.
Sometimes kleptomaniac suffers from long periods of stealing it is similar to the season manifestations of schizophrenia. And sometimes people are inclined to this disease and suffer from it during all their lives. Famous Hollywood actress Winona Rider was caught stealing things. Nowadays she is treated in special medical centre.