Strategies to End Shopping Addiction

For many people, shopping means new clothes for work or maybe odds and ends for the house. However, shopping takes on an entirely different meaning for others. It can become as destructive as any other addiction and result in a financial nightmare for the shopper and family alike. This is referred to as...

Online Shopping Addiction

For many people, shopping is a relatively normal activity of daily life that you give little thought to. For others, however, shopping takes on an entirely different meaning. It can become as destructive as any other addiction and result in a financial nightmare for the shopper and family alike. This is...

Men and Shopping Addiction

A recent study of shopping behavior, published in the American Journal of Psychiatry, has revealed that as many as 1 in 20 Americans suffers from compulsive buying. The surprising discovery is that men are almost as likely to be compulsive shoppers. A compulsive behavior interferes with life to the extent...

Effects of Shopping Addiction

Compulsive shopping is an obsession with shopping that significantly interferes with the functioning of the individual. The signs are a preoccupation with shopping, anxiety when not shopping, a constant need for a shopping “fix,” shopping to excess that results in debt and family or marital...

Causes for Compulsive Shopping

All addictions have the same basic symptoms. Obsession, compulsion, loss of control and continued use in the face of negative consequences are all hallmarks of addiction. People can develop addictions to substances, behaviors or activities. Some of these behaviors or activities may be normal, everyday...