Symptoms
This compulsive behavior involves taking something that does not belong to you and is a key symptom of kleptomania.
What is stealing?
What is a mental health disorder?
This type of talk therapy is commonly used to help people with kleptomania to resist urges.
What is cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)?
Increasing sense of _____ immediately before committing theft.
What is tension, anxiety, or arousal?
Approximately two-thirds of people with kleptomania are this gender.
What is female?
People with kleptomania often struggle with this level of self-esteem.
What is low self-esteem?
A family history of this can increase the likelihood of developing kleptomania.
What is kleptomania or addiction?
Despite being aware of their condition, most people with kleptomania avoid treatment due to this emotion.
What is shame?
This phrase completes the diagnostic criteria: 'Recurrent failure to resist ________ objects that are not needed for personal use or for their monetary value.'
What are impulses to steal?
Kleptomania symptoms typically start during this life stage.
What is late teens or early 20s?
People with kleptomania might have persistent ______ thoughts that are unwanted and difficult to ignore.
What is intrusive?
Psychological trauma experienced during this stage of life may increase risk of developing kleptomania later on.
What is childhood?
Treatment for kleptomania typically involves a combination of these two approaches.
What is psychotherapy and medications?
Pleasure, gratification, or _____ at the time of committing the theft.
What is relief?
Experts estimate kleptomania accounts for this percentage of all shoplifting cases.
What is five percent?
These are common feelings someone with kleptomania might experience after committing theft.
What are guilt, remorse, self-loathing, shame, or fear of arrest?
A neurotransmitter that manages feelings, which is often found at lower levels in people with kleptomania.
What is serotonin?
Many people diagnosed with kleptomania are often already receiving treatment for this type of co-occurring condition.
What are mental health disorders?
The stealing is not committed to express _____ or _________ and is not in response to a delusion or a hallucination.
What is anger or vengeance?
The percentage of the U.S. population that experts estimate have kleptomania.
What is 0.6%?
These are common feelings someone with kleptomania might experience during the act of theft.
What are pleasure, relief, or gratification?
A brain system that regulates pain, pleasure, reward, and addictive behaviors. An imbalance in this may contribute to urges seen in kleptomania.
What is the opioid system?
This CBT-based technique involves imagining yourself stealing and facing negative consequences, such as being arrested.
What is covert sensitization?
The stealing is not better explained by conduct disorder, a manic episode, or _______ personality disorder.
What is antisocial?
It's believed by some mental health experts that nearly two-thirds of people with kleptomania also suffer from an _____ disorder
What is an eating disorder?