My flatmate is a kleptomaniac

[DieScum]

Thought this bizarre glimpse in to my life would amuse you guys.

Been sharing a flat for the last year. After a while noticed that small things of trivial value were starting to go missing from my room. Eventually it started being obvious my flatmate was stealing them.

It's mainly small change. So if I leave any coins lying about then they will disappear over the course of a couple of weeks.

She also seems to be an obsessive hoarder of things of trivial value. So every cupboard in the house is crammed with stupid stuff - sacks full of every conceivable medicine, every cable possible.

She asked if she could use my bathroom cabinet to store some stuff. When I looked later the 'stuff' included an out of date pregnancy kit and two tubes of 'vaginal pleasure gel'. What makes that even stranger is that I believe she is celibate - she makes her boyfriend sleep overnight on the couch.

So I was looking up the wikipedia topic on kleptomania and the main symptom is stealing objects of trivial value with hoarding as a common condition going along with it.

This could only happen to me.

[NotAllThere]

Not just you. There's a few here it could happen to as well.

[cojak]

<quietly replaces NAT's Brazilian waxing kit>

[Pondlife]

Just marry her. It sounds like your halfway there already.

Any money I leave lying about disappears and you should see the crap in our bathroom cabinets.

[d000hg]

Ask if you can borrow the gel.

[wobbegong]

Ask if you can borrow the gel.

Better still, replace it with Ralgex.

[Spacecadet]

Just marry her. It sounds like your halfway there already.

Any money I leave lying about disappears and you should see the crap in our bathroom cabinets.

WHS

And if you're not having sex with her then you're actually married in everything but name.

[Paddy]

Thought this bizarre glimpse in to my life would amuse you guys.

Been sharing a flat for the last year. After a while noticed that small things of trivial value were starting to go missing from my room. Eventually it started being obvious my flatmate was stealing them.

It's mainly small change. So if I leave any coins lying about then they will disappear over the course of a couple of weeks.

She also seems to be an obsessive hoarder of things of trivial value. So every cupboard in the house is crammed with stupid stuff - sacks full of every conceivable medicine, every cable possible.

She asked if she could use my bathroom cabinet to store some stuff. When I looked later the 'stuff' included an out of date pregnancy kit and two tubes of 'vaginal pleasure gel'. What makes that even stranger is that I believe she is celibate - she makes her boyfriend sleep overnight on the couch.

So I was looking up the wikipedia topic on kleptomania and the main symptom is stealing objects of trivial value with hoarding as a common condition going along with it.

This could only happen to me.

It's OCD. Rather a common disorder in women. Get rid of her before it gets worse.

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD): Symptoms, Behavior, and Treatment

Understanding OCD obsessions and compulsions

Obsessions are involuntary, seemingly uncontrollable thoughts, images, or impulses that occur over and over again in your mind. You don’t want to have these ideas but you can’t stop them. Unfortunately, these obsessive thoughts are often disturbing and distracting.

Compulsions are behaviors or rituals that you feel driven to act out again and again. Usually, compulsions are performed in an attempt to make obsessions go away. For example, if you’re afraid of contamination, you might develop elaborate cleaning rituals. However, the relief never lasts. In fact, the obsessive thoughts usually come back stronger. And the compulsive behaviors often end up causing anxiety themselves as they become more demanding and time-consuming.

Most people with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) fall into one of the following categories:

Washers are afraid of contamination. They usually have cleaning or hand-washing compulsions.

Checkers repeatedly check things (oven turned off, door locked, etc.) that they associate with harm or danger.

Doubters and sinners are afraid that if everything isn’t perfect or done just right something terrible will happen or they will be punished.

Counters and arrangers are obsessed with order and symmetry. They may have superstitions about certain numbers, colors, or arrangements.

Hoarders fear that something bad will happen if they throw anything away. They compulsively hoard things that they don’t need or use.

[TimberWolf]

She sounds more like a squirrel.

btw if she has hoarded a serial cable connector, I might be interested.

[MaryPoppins]

It's OCD. Rather a common disorder in women. Get rid of her before it gets worse.

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD): Symptoms, Behavior, and Treatment

My sister suffers quite badly with OCD, she's a 'checker'. It's awful actually.