Do you notice strange things, for example, an irresistible desire to put in a handbag a cutlery or spices from a restaurant? Perhaps, returning from the guests, do you involuntarily take with you some bauble? The presence of such a condition as lack of control and unconsciousness of your actions indicates the presence of such a disease as kleptomania. About this and talk today. About the causes and symptoms of Kleptomania is an irresistible desire to steal things that a person does not need. This, as a rule, some trifles: keychains and miscellaneous trifles in souvenir shops, socks, barrettes and other things in markets and bazaars.
Kleptomania is a mental disorder that needs treatment. Otherwise, this ailment can greatly harm a person. Causes of kleptomania exclusively psychological content. Let's consider the basic preconditions of occurrence of this illness:
- in childhood, a person was deprived of many, and as a result, with age he may have an acute shortage in practically all material goods;
- internal anxiety, fears, stressful situations can provoke attacks of kleptomania, by which a person tries to compensate for "losses";
- problems in his personal life. Unnecessary stolen objects people "fill" the emptiness in the soul. However, no objects replace the feeling of love and friendship;
- head trauma;
- heredity.
Patients with kleptomania commit thefts because this desire is so strong that it is impossible to resist it. This condition is accompanied by anxiety and tension. Stealing a thing means getting rid of these unpleasant feelings. During the theft, the kleptomaniac is relieved.
Symptoms of kleptomania
Today, to determine that a person has this ailment can be on a number of grounds:
- unrestrained impulse to steal a thing in which there is no need;
- tangible tension, leading to theft;
- a sense of happiness and satisfaction from the process;
- a sense of shame after the thing was stolen.
Action Needed
When a person can not independently overcome and get rid of this mania, it is necessary to seek professional help. A psychiatrist will prescribe a treatment that will take kleptomania under control. How to treat this disease experienced psychiatrists know. First of all, you will be asked a number of questions that will guide the doctor in the matter of what effect the disease has on you. You can be offered drugs used to treat alcohol dependence. The appropriate medications remove anxiety and tension, help to relax. Your mood will noticeably improve, and a pleasant feeling of committing theft will forever leave you.