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Is pyromania a recognized psychiatric illness?
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Ptromania: Sure, especially as impulse control disorder.
Answered 10/3/2016
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Pyromania: It is an excitation and an urge and anticipatiory anxiety, excitation build up before setting fires and relief after it it is a dsm4tr disorder.
Answered 8/18/2013
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