What Are the Different Types of Impulse Control Disorders?
It’s important to understand how the types of impulse control disorders are defined. In psychiatric and mental health medicine, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) defines which conditions relate to poor control of impulses. These definitions can leave out some illnesses defined elsewhere in the text or that might only have impulse control issues as a feature. The principal types of impulse control disorders as defined by the DSM are pyromania, kleptomania, intermittent explosive disorder, trichotillomania, pathological gambling, and the catch-all final type named not otherwise specified.
