The Journey Inward: Psychotherapy for Treating Compulsive Shopping
When a person presents for therapy with a serious shopping addiction, it is my guess that a need for soothing pain goes beyond what the person internally has the capacity for and so an external solution—shopping, for instance—fills that need quite well.
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How to Overcome Shopping Addiction
January often inspires new resolutions to spend less money. For some people, that means first overcoming a shopping addiction. About 5 percent of Americans suffer from compulsive shopping, and even more struggle with lesser forms of overspending, says …
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