I want to stop stealing!

[Hurricanemarty]

I too have a problem with stealing, as well as a long list of other fucking self destructive behaviour. It's an impulse disorder. Ta know it's like everything about me is a disorder and it sucks. Stealing is so incredibly stupid for me because Zi will go straight to prison and then that's it. No getting out. Sometimes Ai will come home from a store and I will see all of the shit in my purse and Im like " I just robbed these mother fuckers" by the amount in my purse. I see a psychiatrist for my other issues like med. management but the stealing is addressed with a therapist, which I need to find a new one. My last therapist didn't want to see me anymore. Talk about feeling like shit. What do you steal if you don't mind me asking.

 

[Erikmen]

Hey. Trying to pick uo the thread, my name is Johnny. I also occasionaly steal. I believe its more for the rush yhan for the stuff.

If you do it for the rush, I suppose this may be an addition and similar to any other you need to address these issues to a professional that can help you.
See what average extreme posted. It could happen to you. And, indeed, it can change your future for ever.

 

[Boupstarnm]

It's super tricky.

Last summer me and my (then) girlfriend spent our entire time together either:
-napping
-shoplifting
-taking adderall
-taking bupe

If we needed anything we stole it. Everything. Fucking candy, pints and pints and pints of Ben and Jerry's... Cases of beer. Day after day after day. She was so beautiful no one suspected a thing, I was so normal no one had a second thought.

The only way we stopped? Every fucking store in the city knew we were doing it. We ended up living in my car, staying at hotels (funniest part I held down a job the entire time) and somehow just "had" to steal everything.

I still get the urge every now and then but bottom line the voices in my head overtook any urge to shoplift. It's still fun. It's still a rush. But it's not worth the consequences.

 

[JessFR]

Only shit I've stolen in the last 5 years or so have been medical supplies from crimes of opportunity, such as being hospitalized for a suicide attempt and stealing some needles, IV cannulas, tourniquets, stuff like that. Only reason I could is I hadn't been changed out of my regular clothes into hospital stuff.

Also pocketed some stuff from doctors clinics, lidocaine, butterfly needles, things like that. Mainly because you never know when something like that might come in handy.

Only got close to being caught once, doctor came in and asked me straight up if I had stolen stuff. I played it cool, said I had just gotten a bit lost, and happily volunteered for him to look in my bag..... just without telling him there were more obscure compartments where one might hide something. He seemed to buy it.