It seems to me that kleptomania ...

It seems to me that kleptomania something like gambling, we have developed to some extent on the basis of self-preservation instinct, even though there is no direct evidence of this. Man gets special pleasure from risk, from tickling the nerves kind of game in which the most exciting - to feel that you are not caught. Such a mechanism is to have pleasure. There is an extreme form of violation of self-preservation instinct - suitsidomaniya, which is lighter versions known as the desire for the pleasures of life-threatening. These different stunt, rockers, lovers of extreme sports. Man is constantly on the balance between life and death, and receives from this high. Kleptomania - roughly the same, but the risk is much less. In a motorcyclist - a direct threat to life, and have a kleptomaniac - indirect: the threat of social freedom. To the frustration involved in a broad sense and include alcoholism and drug addiction. At certain times of the patient begins feeling uncomfortable when he wanted to drink, or prick - is an internal struggle. Then joy - doryvaetsya. Some time after the dose of his releases, saturation. But over time, to get a tangible pleasure to drink more and more necessary. We alcoholics are clearly seen, the players, when pathological passion for the game leads the family to poverty. On the idea, and kleptomania should be so. - Recovery is possible? - In cases where there is sexual motives, using psychotherapy and hormonal treatments. Success is not very large. But still there is the direction in which we can move forward. The patient is reduced hormonal activity - say, helps. But in general all that relates to disorders of desire, ill-treatment amenable. Especially since we almost do not know where it is taken. - People who fall for the bait thimblerigger, are sick? - No, they have only increased naive credulity and desire to get rich instantly. - To us the Editor received a letter in which a woman says that she has to communicate with family kleptomania. She resents them, but understands that people do not know what they do, can not control their emotions, and because it does not interrupt a relationship with them. - Although the disorder attraction is not as well studied as, say, schizophrenia, but such cases to kleptomania was a family illness, or in practice, not even in theory, do not have to meet. However, we know that there is some form of mental disorder in the elderly, which is called delirium loss and impoverishment. Older people may blame others (especially family members and those who frequently comes to visit) in the theft: the grandson stole a comb, a neighbor secretly pour out of cereal banks, the daughter umyknula barely begun packet of henna and so on. C ill person who believes that he is constantly declining, to agree to something reasonable can not: it exists in another reality.