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  1. Is your closet overflowing with never-worn clothing, the price tags still waving in the breeze? Yes

  2. Is your closet bulging with boxes and boxes of shoes that have never touched the pavement? Yes

  3. Do you buy unnecessary Accessories rings/earrings & bracelts, you know you wont be wearing? Yes

  4. Do you buy make-up so often? Yes

Then, you might be a shopaholic! :P

 

Deciding whether you are a shopaholic depends on your definition of the word. The term shopaholic used to mean someone who liked to shop, maybe a little too much.Now being a shopaholic may mean that you are a compulsive shopper who spends beyond your limits, buys things you have no use for, and uses shopping as a way to feel better temporarily.

Some believe that the shopaholic is actually suffering from an addiction. Addiction is defined as having a compulsion to a commit a behavior, being unable to stop a behavior, and continuing the behavior despite harmful results.

Being somehow a shophaolic I can proudly say Shopping is one of the best things to do when you are in a depression phase.  It helps keeping me busy looking around and compare prices. In a sense, when I do shopping, am given a few moments of good mood. This is a momentary mental reward. So it encourages me to repeat the pattern in order to feel that “high” produced by shopping and purchasing.  But I always end up broke and that would be the worst part of it.  What concerns me the most now is the right approach to overcome this temporarily bad habbit.  Yes am admitting it it’s bad, it’s bad when you keep seeing those prices tags & the unworn undies bursting out of the drawer.  Am trying to cut out expenses but it’s geeting harder with all what am going through. 

unfortunately we lack of counseling orgnizations who would help the complusive shoppers,  so it does not become an addictive behavior that controls one’s life.