[Naiwen]

Please can anyone help with my shoplifting addiction? If I see something I want, I just take it and put it in my purse, often at low security stores. I really need professional psychiatric help. I need to change this behavior and I know I'll get caught eventually, but it's not stopping me from doing it. So help and advice on how to change my behavior. I've tried doing CBT exercises and avoiding my triggers (which is jewelry), but to avail, I caught myself shoplifting again from a very big store without camera surveillance and a only a few service clerks. Any ideas on how to change my criminal behavior?

[gayleggg]

Nothing stopped me until I was handcuffed and taken to jail. It was such a scary thing. And I can tell you is an expensive ordeal to go through not to mention embarrassing. I was forced to get counseling and do community service. It was humiliating.

The best advise I can give you is to get help now because it only gets worse. It is very addictive. At first it's small stuff then it goes to more stuff and riskier stealing. The best way to stop is to have a buddy that you can call when you feel like shoplifting and letting them talk you out of it. Along with therapy there is life after shoplifting.

if you want to talk pm me .

[ComfortablyNumb5]

My friends and I were the queens of this. Before we drove, we'd ride our bikes to the stores around here and we'd wear big clothes to stores so we could walk out with layers of clothes we wanted underneath. Funny thing is, one of my friends ended up being a mall cop when we got older. And now when I'm in a popular dollar store and I know there's only one girl working, I've taken things when she was busy ringing someone up. So yea I still haven't stopped but I'm nothing like I was when I was a teen. What stopped me was when all my stores got surveillance and security and my friends started getting caught. Another popular thing my friends started doing when we got older is take a high priced thing and try and return it for money. And back when they were ok giving you cash and not a store card, they scored a few times. Really hope you it under control before you get busted. That's my worst fear.

[zijax]

I used to steal leather gloves at the dept store i worked in. I had to have every color and there were lots of colors. I stuffed them in my purse after work and left the store. It was a thrill. I stuck them in my bottom drawer and never once wore them. I just liked getting away with it. Once I got caught for shoplifting a $10.00 bracelet. I went to jail. my father had to bail me out. He asked me why I didn't just run from the security guard and he hoped it wouldn't be in the papers bc our family was important.

It's not worth it to steal. It's just stuff I don't really need. Change my mindset. Sleep better. Break the addiction. It's demonic.

[Naiwen]

I got caught shoplifting, but they just nicely asked me to give them back their store and leave the store.