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Impulse-control disorder

repeatedly engage in behaviors that are harmful and feel they cannot control.

• Right away to snatch, scream - compled to engage in that heavior, right away, anxiety until you do it

Experience tension and anxiety until they follow their impulses and feel a sense of pleasure or gratification, although later may have regrets.

Oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), age onset, treatment

Impulse control disorder characterized by irritable/angry mood and defiant behavior that results in family and/or school problems. Begins around 5-10

• Opposite of what ur expected or told to do, punish u for punishing me (child mindset)

• Treatment: Behavioral, cognitive, and social learning approaches

Conduct disorder, onset period

Impulse control disorder that involves repeated violations of other’s rights and society’s norms and laws. Onset after adolescence

Intermittent explosive disorder, treatment

Impulse control disorder involved an inability to hold back expressing angry feelings and associated violent behaviors

• Treatment: CBT, medication

Kleptomania

Impulse control disorder that involves the persistent urge to steal. Not for any gain, but out of mental necessity

Pyromania

Impulse control disorder involving the persistent urges to start fires. (Not arson). No ulterior motive, just mental necessity

Unspecified disruptive, impulse-control, and conduct disorder

Disorder involving symptoms of an impulse-control disorder but doesn't fall into any of the main categories