subject: Impulse Control Disorders: Types [print this page] Following are the various types of impulse control disorders:
Intermittent Explosive Disorder:
In this type of disorder, people usually come out with severe outbursts of anger at any trivial issue. These outbursts can go really violent even people tend to hurt themselves and leads to serious physical injuries sometimes. Evidently, such impulse control disorders are commonly found in men than females.
Kleptomania:
Under the effect of this kind of disorder, people cannot resist themselves from stealing anything from others. Women are more tend to have this kind of disorder and they should be confused with the problem of shoplifting.
Pyromania:
In this kind of disorder, people get the feeling to set things on fire. By doing so, such people gain a kind of self satisfaction or relief. However, there is no monetary or hidden criminal offense is included here. Children are mainly suffering from such disorder and need a complete care and protection.
Trichotillomania:
This kind of disorder is commonly found in children and causes them to pull out their hairs. This is very unhealthy as it leads to serious hair loss.
Dermatillomania:
This is a kind of self injuring disorder when individuals picks at ones own skin. People usually injured their feet, hands, cuticles and other parts of their bodies like face, stomach, scalp, lips, and chest.
Pathological Gambling:
Referring to its name, such disorder is about people choosing recurrent maladaptive gambling practices. Such practices spoil both their personal and professional lives and the society also starts neglecting them. Severe depression is the end results of these practices.
