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Recognizing Adolescent Impulse Disorders
Impulse control disorders: characterized by an inability to resist the impulse to perform an action that is harmful to one's self or other.
Types Of Impulse Disorders
- Intermittent Explosive - episodes of uncontrollable rage and anger. Individual will blow up in a violent, uncontrollable rage sometimes called a rage attack. The behavior is out of proportion to the act that caused the response.
- Kleptomania - the repetitive, uncontrollable stealing of items not needed for personal use. There is an increasing sense of tension or arousal before committing the theft, and an experience of pleasure, gratification or release at the time of committing the theft.
- Pyromania - the deliberate and purposeful fire setting. There is tension or heightened arousal prior to the act and gratification or relief afterward. This type of fire setting is not done for financial or personal gain, or as an expression of anger or vengeance.
- Compulsive Gambling - is pathological gambling that is associated with unsuccessful efforts to stop gambling, restlessness or irritability when trying to stop gambling, lying to family members and friends to conceal the extent of gambling, and committing crimes to finance gambling.
- Trichotillomania - irresistible urge to pull out one's hair to the point of noticeable hair loss. The most common areas to pull hair are the scalp, eyelashes and eyebrows.
- Oniomania - is compulsive shopping. A preoccupation with buying and irresistible impulses to buy more than you can afford and for items, you do not need.
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