Help for serious shopaholics – EurekAlert

For the first time, international experts in psychology have built a framework to diagnose Compulsive Buying-Shopping Disorder – promising help for people struggling to manage their spending behaviour and mental wellbeing.
The new guidelines, published in the Journal of Behavioral Addictions, confirms that excessive buying and shopping can be so serious as to constitute a disorder, giving researchers and clinicians new powers to develop more targeted interventions for this debilitating condition….

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