Mar/090
Kleptomania: a syndrome of star
Kleptomania is part of the group of disorders of impulse control.
This syndrome can be defined as the applicant and repeated failure to resist stealing objects that have no personal gain and often even a large commercial value.
Theft is never done for revenge, to anger, nor under the influence of drugs or hallucinogens.
It simply dictated by an urge to steal, and the inability and weakness of the person who cannot restrain themselves and to resist his overwhelming urge to “take”.
The kleptomaniac articles on tip cheap and once gave them stolen or throws them away.
It can even happen that keeps them and then return them later, without being discovered. This demonstrates the complete disregard for the object stolen.
Among the VIPs kleptomania is a very common disorder.
Just think about the “pilfering” of Winona Ryder, surprised more than once to steal clothes.
Even among the common people, stealing is often rich girl of good family, who would not have any need.
But what makes even the rich and not need to steal?
The desire to attract attention, to perform a stunt, to take risks.
Kleptomaniacs often suffer from other illnesses such as anorexia, bulimia, sexual obsession, abuse of alcohol and drugs.
The patient suffered from kleptomania no program ever stolen, puts in place alone without an accomplice and is very careful not to be discovered and arrested.
The act of stealing is preceded by a feeling of growing tension, accompanied by pleasure, gratification and relief following the robbery. Only after the patient is aware of the gesture, disappeared the initial euphoria, may fall into a state of depression and harbor strong guilt.
Kleptomania compulsive disorder is a very serious because it can have repercussions on social life at the family level, work, and obviously cause legal difficulties.
It can be affected at any age, although it is rare that it occurs for the first time in late adulthood. Usually begins in childhood, adolescence and adulthood.
To be most affected, are the women of the wealthy classes. The men, more aggressive, vent their impulses in gambling. Women, however, are in the shopping channel outlet.
The disease can occur sporadically or take a chronic form, which leads to steal with some regularity and diligence, without a long stoppage periods elapse between the theft and another. Even if the subjects suffer multiple convictions for theft, the disorder may continue for years.
Jan/090
The risks of lightening creams
It was launched by a group of British doctors a warning regarding the use of bleaching creams on the market leaked. These preparations would indeed, as the British trials, which are responsible for the onset of various health problems including the syndrome of Cushing, a rare but serious disease that affects mainly women. Hammersmith Hospital in London, doctors, thanks to the examination of several cases, have conducted research, published in the authoritative medical journal Lancet, which denounced the widespread illegal preparations to lighten the skin and their role in severe irritation and drastic hormonal imbalances.
The most striking case is that of a young twenty-eight of those who admitted they had used for seven years of a whitening cream but not purchased in a pharmacy in a small shop not further identified. Currently she is, according to doctors, who suffers from Cushing’s Syndromes, and thus have developed a serious hormonal imbalance that besides having done buy thirteen kilograms and have caused the bruising and hair on the back and face, has cost possibility of becoming a mother, making it infertile. The creams contain accused Hidrochinone fact, a molecule depigmenting whose use is banned for cosmetic purposes and steroids.
It would have been the high level of steroid hormones to cause Cushing’s syndrome in women. But according to dermatologist Milan Riccarda Serri the risk of developing this syndrome is linked more to the use of cortisone, the syndrome is indeed caused by an excessive production of cortisol, than to Hidrochinone which would entail no risk hormone. The molecule bleaching because although prohibited purposes cosmetic is used in pharmaceutical products. Tricia Tan and Tony Goldstone, who coordinated the research, stressed that the illegal market of these preparations fruit in Britain alone millions of pounds a year and that patients are often completely unaware of the dangers.