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Category: Compulsive Buying

Women Who Hide their Shopping Addiction from their Husbands

Shopping addiction is not a problem isolated to this side of the Atlantic. Buckinghamshire psychologist Nadine Field treats an average of six women a week who have been spending behind their partners’ backs. Thirty-three-year-old Elenor Smith has been spending money she and her husband don’t have for the past three years. She’s been piling up… Continue reading Women Who Hide their Shopping Addiction from their Husbands

Hotel Bookkeeper Embezzled £30k from Bosses to Fund Her Internet Shopping Addiction

With the retail world at her fingertips and shielded by her position as a hotel bookkeeper, internet shopping addict Eleanor Buchanan embezzled £30,000 from her employer at the Hillcroft Hotel in Whitburn, Great Britain. She stole the money between December 2010 and January 2012, spending the entire amount on designer clothes for her children.  Buchanan’s… Continue reading Hotel Bookkeeper Embezzled £30k from Bosses to Fund Her Internet Shopping Addiction

Shopping Addiction a Growing Problem in the U.S.

Trips to the mall are the fix some Americans need to manage the stress of their lives. Like an alcoholic craves a drink, so does a compulsive shopper rush to a retailer. The compulsion may begin early in life, regardless of income. The reasons for chronic shopping range from low self esteem, to depression, or… Continue reading Shopping Addiction a Growing Problem in the U.S.

Retail Therapy Gone Wrong

Lots of people like to do a little therapeutic shopping from time to time, just as a little pick-me-up. “Retail therapy” like this goes wrong when you find yourself buying something even when you know you can’t really afford it. You just feel like you can’t help yourself. And then when the thrill of the… Continue reading Retail Therapy Gone Wrong

Fashion Blogs May Be a Hazard to Your Health… Especially If You’re a Celebrity Worshiper!

We’ve all had a “celebrity crush”, and “Celebrity Worship, Materialism, Compulsive Buying, and the Empty Self” reveals what can happen when that “crush” turns into an obsession. Celebrity worship is associated with “The Empty Self Theory.” a theory that suggests that someone with an empty self “is plagued by a loss of a shared sense… Continue reading Fashion Blogs May Be a Hazard to Your Health… Especially If You’re a Celebrity Worshiper!

More Male Shopaholics

Nobody wants to see the number of shopping addictions grow, even if it means making the genders balance more even.  But shopping addiction is not a female-only problem, and opening up the dialog to men too takes away some of the stigma. Terence Shulman of the the Shulman Center for Compulsive Theft, Spending, and Hoarding… Continue reading More Male Shopaholics

Who’s a Shopaholic?

Is there a certain type of person who is at risk of becoming a shopaholic? We’ve heard of the phrase “addictive personality,” but it seems like there needs to be more research done on the way the brain works to better understand this. Right now we can say that men, women, and now children, who… Continue reading Who’s a Shopaholic?