Types of Substances and Their Treatments

Kleptomania

Kleptomania is a sort of disorder where a person has inability or great difficulty in resisting impulses of stealing

Helpful Information on Kleptomania

Cleptomanía is a Greek word that stands for to steal. The person who is suffering from stealing habit means that he/she is suffering from Cleptomanía. The Cleptomanía is an inability or great difficulty in resisting impulses of stealing; people who have an addiction with this disorder are compelled to steal the things.

The things that they steal are of normal and little type and have little or no value. These things may be pens, paper clips, small toys, toffees and small stationary things. A large number of people are addicted with the Cleptomanía disorder.

Action and Behavior on stealing process

The individual may not aware that they have committed the theft. They don’t believe that they have stolen any product. This is a most common crime. They take it as a joy and don’t feel guilty. They tend to be more skilled in stealing.

The Cleptomanía is distinguished from shoplifting or ordinary theft. As the shoplifters theft the very precious and costlier thing that have a monetary value, while Cleptomanía addicted individual don’t theft the valuable items.

They steal only then when they are compelled. All the reported shoplifting there is only one percent actual Cleptomaníacs. The habit of stealing the small things generally starts from childhood and terminates at the adulthood stage.

Effect of Cleptomania

Some time it happens that the normal stealing habit don’t stop at the limited time and remains for the whole life. It becomes the mental disorder for individual’s entire life.

Treatment Centers

The treatment centers offer the diagnosis for preventing the stealing habit. The Cleptomanía is considered as a part of Obsessive compulsive Disorder. The treatment center offers the Cognitive Behavior Therapy as the medication treatment. Center use Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors, Mood stabilizers and many other methods also.