Editing Pyromania (section)

=== Individual ===
Individual factors contributing to pyromania include emotions and intrinsic drives. One individual factor that could lead to pyromania is feelings of inadequacy, where the individual has the perception that they are not good enough.<ref name=":1" /> This factor is related to the environment in that the perception of inadequacy is derived from environmental events, however when this perception is internalised it becomes an individual factor. Another factor contributing to pyromania is feelings of stress. This could be the buildup of stress over a duration of time or an isolated stressful event.<ref name=":1" /> Patients with pyromania report urges, or intrinsic drives, to set fires.<ref name=":2" /> These fire setting drives can lead to feelings of tension or stress within the individual, and fire setting resolves this tension. Fire setting has also been shown to provide a ‘rush’ of physiological arousal for patients, which produces pleasure. This arousal acts as a positive reinforcer which perpetuates the behaviour and motivates its recurrence.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last1=Grant |first1=Jon E. |title=Oxford Handbook of Impulse Control Disorders |last2=Potenza |first2=Marc N. |date=2011 |publisher=Oxford University Press, USA |isbn=978-0-19-990920-9 |series=Oxford Library of Psychology |location=s.l}}</ref> While not always a cause of the initial fire setting behaviour itself, this tension, and ‘rush’, acts as a cause of pyromania once the initial behaviour has been performed because it drives the same behaviour in the future.<ref name=":2" />