Shopping ’til you drop? Now the experts have a diagnosis – Medical Xpress

For the first time, international experts in psychology have built a framework to diagnose Compulsive Buying-Shopping Disorderpromising 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. Hence, researchers and clinicians need to develop more targeted interventions for this debilitating condition.
The international…

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