• Compulsive shoppers: Buying when they are feeling emotional distress.
• Trophy shoppers: They are always looking for the next great item.
• Flashy shoppers: They desire the attention that comes with having nice, new things.

Shopping can be socially acceptable because consumerism is continually pushed on us in the forms of posters, adverts, and signs.

Shopping is also a way of life: You need food and clothing from stores. Even if you try to stop compulsive buying by avoiding the stores in person, there is stil...

Addiction describes trying something, becoming emotionally and physically dependent on it, and then becoming psychologically and physically addicted to it. People who struggle with addiction have explained feeling euphoric, elevated, happy, complete, and whole when they partake in thei...

• A preoccupation with shopping for unneeded items, taking you away from daily responsibilities such as work duties and home life.
• Spending much of your time shopping or doing intense research on items you wish to buy.
• Extreme difficulty resisting the urge t...

Up to 6% of the population suffers from shopping compulsion or addiction.

When you consider a new purchase, you're anticipating a reward.
Once the purchase is made, the reward pathway of your brain lights up, and dopamine floods your system. Once it wears off, you crave it again....