Overview Pyromania involves deliberate and purposeful fire-setting on more than one occasion, with tension or affective arousal before the act, and fascination with or attraction to fire and its situational contexts. Signs and Symptoms Symptoms can include a rising sense of tension before fire-setting and pleasure or relief afterward, distinct from fire-setting for monetary gain, …
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Oppositional Defiant Disorder
Overview Oppositional defiant disorder involves a persistent pattern of angry or irritable mood, argumentative or defiant behavior, or vindictiveness lasting at least six months, directed primarily toward authority figures. Signs and Symptoms Symptoms can include frequent temper loss, arguing with adults, actively defying rules, deliberately annoying others, and blaming others for one’s own mistakes. Experiencing …
Kleptomania
Overview Kleptomania involves recurrent failure to resist impulses to steal items that are not needed for personal use or monetary value, along with a sense of tension before the act and relief or gratification during or after it. Signs and Symptoms Symptoms can include a rising sense of tension before stealing and relief afterward, distinct …
Intermittent Explosive Disorder
Overview Intermittent explosive disorder involves recurrent, sudden episodes of impulsive aggression or anger that are grossly out of proportion to the provoking circumstance, causing distress or impairment. Signs and Symptoms Symptoms can include verbal or physical aggression occurring frequently, or more severe destructive or assaultive episodes occurring less often, generally with rapid onset and limited …
Encopresis
Overview Encopresis involves repeated passage of feces in inappropriate places, whether involuntary or intentional, occurring at least once a month for at least three months in a child at a developmental age of four or older. Signs and Symptoms Symptoms can include soiling episodes, which are often associated with constipation and overflow incontinence, though some …
Enuresis
Overview Enuresis involves repeated voiding of urine into bed or clothes, whether involuntary or intentional, occurring at least twice a week for three months, or causing significant distress, in a child at a developmental age of five or older. Signs and Symptoms Symptoms can include nighttime bedwetting, daytime wetting, or both, occurring beyond the age …
Conduct Disorder
Overview Conduct disorder involves a repetitive and persistent pattern of behavior in children or adolescents that violates the basic rights of others or major age-appropriate societal norms, such as aggression, destruction of property, deceitfulness, or serious rule violations. Signs and Symptoms Symptoms can include bullying or threatening others, physical cruelty, destruction of property, lying or …