Habit and impulse disorders

Kleptomania is the inability to resist the urge to steal items, usually for reasons other than personal use or financial gain. First described in 1816, kleptomania is classified in psychiatry as an impulse-control disorder. Some of the main characteristics of the disorder suggest that kleptomania could be an obsessive–compulsive spectrum disorder, but also share similarities with addictive and mood disorders.

Pyromania is an impulse-control disorder in which individuals repeatedly fail to resist impulses to deliberately start fires. An individual with pyromania deliberately sets fires on more than one occasion, and before the act of lighting the fire, the person usually experiences tension and an emotional buildup.

repetitive gambling despite demonstrable harm and adverse consequences

behavior of habitual or compulsive lying

performing an act persistently and repetitively without it necessarily leading to an actual reward or pleasure

written work by James Clear

eating in response to emotions

form of obsessive–compulsive disorder focusing on close or intimate relationships

disorder due to addictive gaming behaviour