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What is Kleptomania?
Kleptomania is featured by a failure to resist urges to steal items that are not own, may not have any potential or monetary value either. But we should not mix up kleptomania with shoplifting, as both are not just same. The shoplifting is characterized by the conscious action of the performer intended to gain other’s valuable objects, whereas, Kleptomania develops as an unconscious obsessional part of mind which makes the victim to get into this type of act without giving any scope of considering the consequences altogether. Studies suggest it may derive as a result of depression or mood-disorder.
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