Impulse Control Disorders

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Impulse Control Disorders
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Intermittent Explosive Disorder

• Definition the inability to control violent
  impulses. It can be difficult to identify this
  disorder because it is often confused with bad
  temper or behaviour.
• Causes
• Too much testosterone
• Childhood exposure to illegal substances
• Head trauma, seizures, brain
• infections
• Grown up with unstable family
• No role model in early life
• Low self-esteem, insecurity

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• Symptoms
• Can last 10-20 mins
• Repeated, unpredictable episodes
• No sign of aggression between episodes
• Injuries and destruction of property
• Irritable, increased anger, rage, tingling, chest
  tightness, headache
• Treatments/Therapies
• Medication and/or individual/group therapy
• Cognitive behaviour therapy
• Medications antidepressants, anticonvulsants,
  anti-anxiety agents, mood regulators

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Kleptomania

• Definition the inability to resist the urge to
  steal things, although the items they steal have
  no personal gain. It is quite rare, and should
  not be confused with shop lifting.
• Causes
• Possible genetic component
• Depression, mood disorders, obsessive
• compulsive disorder (OCD) are often present
• as well
• Most cases occur in females
• Large amounts of stress can trigger an
• episode

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• Symptoms
• Urges to steal
• Increased tension leading up to theft, pleasure
  while stealing, guilt and shame afterwards
• Uncomfortably anxious, tense, or aroused
• Spontaneous
• Things like arguments can trigger an episode
• Can show a fetish (stealing the same kind of
  thing)

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• Treatments/Therapies
• medications including antidepressants, mood
  stabilizers,
• benzodiazepines, anti-seizure medications,
  addiction
• Medication
• spsychotherapy cognitive behaviour therapy,
• covert sensitization, aversion therapy,
  systematic
• desensitization

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Pathological Gambling

• Definition an uncontrollable urge to gamble. It
• destroys relationships, causes financial
  problems,
• or can cause problems with the law, the
  individual
• can not stop.
• Causes
• Highly competitive
• Problems with brains serotonin, norepinephrine
  and dopamine
• Believe they have control over the situation,
  which relieves their stress
• May have a genetic component
• Majority of cases of pathological gambling occur
  in white males

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• Symptoms
• Can be more serious during stress or depression
• preoccupied with gambling and getting money
• Usually about the excitement
• taking time from work/family
• feel remorse afterwards
• borrow or steal money
• Lying
• Treatments/Therapies
• medications include antidepressants, mood
  stabilizers, narcotic antagonists
• Psychotherapy cognitive behaviour therapy, group
  therapy

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Pyromania

• Definition uncontrollable impulse to set fires
  repeatedly with no motive.
• Causes
• Feels repressed by authority, but seeks attention
• May have been neglected
• Stressful events can trigger an episode
• Can have bad social skills, and poor
  relationships, if any

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• Symptoms
• deliberate fire setting (more than
• once)
• interest or attraction to fire
• Tension or excitement prior to incident
• pleasure/relief after or when setting fire
• Treatment/therapies
• treatment isn't found to work very well, and
  there aren't many approaches
• medications serotonin reuptake inhibitors
• psychotherapy behaviour modification

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Trichotillomania

• Definition the uncontrollable desire to pluck
  hair from their body. This can be the hair on
  their head, but also can include the eyebrows,
  eyelashes, and other body hair. This can results
  in complete hair loss.
• Causes
• Mutations in a gene
• Childhood abuse - including sexual,
• physical, or emotional
• May be a learned disorder
• Stressful situations could trigger an episode

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• Symptoms
• patchy/bald areas (head, eye lashes, eyebrows,
  etc)
• chewing/eating/playing with pulled out hair
• rubbing pulled out hair across lips or face
• sometimes use tools (tweezers, etc)
• Can be intentional or unintentional
• Treatments/therapies
• medications antidepressents
• psychotherapy cognitive behaviour therapy,
• acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT)

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Sources

• http//allpsych.com/disorders/impulse_control/inde
  x.html
• http//www.suite101.com/content/what-is-intermitte
  nt-explosive-disorder-a127176
• http//www.mentalhelp.net/poc/center_index.php?id
  114
• http//www.mayoclinic.com/health/search/search
• http//www.psychnet-uk.com/dsm_iv/pyromania.htm
• http//www.brainphysics.com/kleptomania.php
• http//psychcentral.com/lib/2007/what-causes-inter
  mittent-explosive-disorder/
• http//www.forensicpsychiatry.ca/impulse/overview.
  htm