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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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Where does it come from?
Kleptomania is addiction that is connected with disorders of will and habit. Something it makes people do things they do. There are a lot of disorders of attraction for example attraction to walking, pyromania, bulimia, anorexia. Sexual disorders are easily explained and treated. But everything is much more complicated with pyromania and kleptomania and it is hard to get to know what the base was and what caused the appearance of these disorders.
Kleptomania is very much alike gambling. It develops on self-preservative instincts however there are no evidences of it. A person gets pleasure from the risk. They seem to be playing the game which they either win or loose. This is the certain way of pleasure getting.
There is another form of preservative instinct disorder that is suicide mania that is also known as the desire to get pleasure from things that threaten people's lives. Kleptomania is almost the same but the risk is lower. Surfer risks his life but kleptomaniac risks his/her social freedom.
Alcoholism and drugs addiction also refer to disorders of affections. During the certain time sick person gets the feeling of discomfort as when someone who is addicted wants to get the necessary doze, he/she is fighting against himself/herself. And the consequences are always awful. And the doze constantly rises with every visiting the shop.