Kleptomania Support Group
Kleptomania is an inability to resist impulses of stealing. A person with this disorder is compelled to steal things, generally things of little or no value, such as pens, decorative pins, or wall decorations. They are often unaware of performing the theft until some time later. If you are suffering from kleptomania, join the group and get support.
I've struggled with stealing for about 3 years (2008), and have been caught twice, and had numerous other close encounters, all of which ashame me greatly.
I know *why* I steal. I also suffer from an eating disorder, bulimia. I starve myself for days, until I get the urge to massively binge. So, I steal food. I don't have much money, so that's how I "justify" it. I see my therapist mainly for my eating disorder, depression, and social anxiety. But...lately, my stealing has gotten more and more out of hand.
I need to bring it up in a session, but I'm afraid of the replication. I know she's my therapist, and is non-judgmental, but I still fear the reactions of others, whether they are justified or not, or whether or not they're even real and just my other issues making me "believe" them to be.
I know *why* I steal. I also suffer from an eating disorder, bulimia. I starve myself for days, until I get the urge to massively binge. So, I steal food. I don't have much money, so that's how I "justify" it. I see my therapist mainly for my eating disorder, depression, and social anxiety. But...lately, my stealing has gotten more and more out of hand.
I need to bring it up in a session, but I'm afraid of the replication. I know she's my therapist, and is non-judgmental, but I still fear the reactions of others, whether they are justified or not, or whether or not they're even real and just my other issues making me "believe" them to be.
I am a lot like you I suffered for about ten years with anorexia and bulimia and I also have social anxiety. My eating disorder is better as far as starving and purging but now I am over eating especially when I am alone. I know why I hae to fill this void inside me and it stems back to being molested by by biological father when I was a child. I have dealt with the main issues surrounding that and have forgiven him although I choose now to have any contact with him for the safety of my children.and their children when they have them. I also chose to break the cycle and not to abuse my children. I was emotionally abused and physucally abused as well.
I do not have an answer for shoplifting but I stopped my eating disorder after I moved in with family. I could not let them hear me in the bathroom or not eat food they made especially for me. Shoplifting is against everything I beleive in and I do not have an answer. I stay out of stores as much as I possibly can but ever now and then I get a craving and like I said I have to steal food or I do not eat.