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| What’s Behind Shopping Addiction? |  Shopping addiction is a warning sign that there are negative feelings you are attempting to stay away from. Conniving yourself at shopping helps frozen these disturbing feelings, as a minimum for a while. Every time you try to prevent the pattern of compulsive spending, you may discover that you have to cope with stressful feelings and the panic and fear that results. Even though you may have promised yourself you were going to really control your shopping, in an effort to feel better fast, you go on yet another shopping binge.
There are lots of social and cultural factors that are likely to raise the addictive potential of shopping and spending. The easy accessibility of credit and the material focal point of society in general promote people to build up possessions now and worry about financial responsibility later. Society positions a strong emphasis on one's external look and many media personalities encourage spending money to get a certain look that will bring about happiness. Besides, the openness of buying has been made easier with the appearing of online shopping and television programs devoted to purchasing goods 24 hours a day.
In actual fact, the shopping and spending activity itself is connected with a feeling of happiness and power which is instantly gratifying. When you are purchasing, charging, ordering, you do feel better for a few minutes, but, as a rule it does not last long. The consequences of regret and guilt take the spender back to purchase again to be able to attain that brief but strong emotional high. Study has disclosed that many compulsive shoppers and spenders also suffer from depression and other mood disorders, substance abuse, or eating disorders. As with any addiction, the person becomes dependent on the behavior to ease negative feelings that make them distress and discomfort.
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