Shopping Addiction: Avoidance Behavior

If you’re a shopping addict and a procrastinator, these two activities are probably linked. Think about when you indulge in your shopping addiction. Is it when you’re particularly stressed out about something? Avoidance behavior is the more clinical term for procrastination; it’s what we do to avoid something stressful. Maybe you’re doing online shopping when you should be focusing on a big paper or project? It’s easier to focus your attention on something that makes you happy rather than something that’s stressful, but what ever it is you’re trying to avoid can’t be put off forever!

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