hi, I have been dealing with a problem since I was three years of age. I started stealing at the age of three years old starting with little hotwheel cars. it then grew worst in my later years starting with breaking and entering ( phone, gaming consles ...ect.) it then got to the point that I was in high school and I started stealing money for my parents. my parents then kicked me out of the house after they found out, and I was living in a homeless shelter for awhile. now I have joined the military and am now stealing from my friends. please help me I have tried everything and nothing is working I try and do things that would take my mind away from it and it would work for awhile like a month or so, but it keeps coming back growing even more terrible than the last time. I don't know what to do, i'm scared for my life and career.
Maybe, since you're in the military, you can talk to someone in their psychology department about it. They may be able to help you. Also, because you've joined up, you'll be forced to be more disciplined with your time and thoughts and this could become a defining moment in rounding your character for good and for life.
Thank you
@rubbishphoney95, I had a thought when I first read your comment, before. I’m wondering if there was something bothering you when you first started doing this. Like, was there some crisis or trauma during that period of your childhood that you may have been acting-out on. The reason I ask is because my own daughter, when she was about 4, her father and I went through a terrible divorce. She started to steal stuff back then, lie, and also to push and hit other kids or family members. And so, I knew she was acting out. I had to really lay down the law because I knew if I didn’t nip it in the bud, she would take it into her teen and adult years. Thankfully we caught the problems in time.