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Shopping Addiction
(redirected from Compulsive Shopping)

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Shopping Addiction
A spending disorder which is
(1) Poorly controlled
(2) Markedly distressful, time-consuming, and which results in familial, social, vocational, and/or financial difficulties
(3) Does not occur in the context of hypomanic or manic symptoms


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The wise consumers only use credit cards with maximum care and they do not start compulsive shopping sprees and they try to limit their use for emergency purposes only.
The most common cause is that a link exists between compulsive shopping and clinical depression.
Cases alleging adverse behavioral side effects such as hyper-sexuality or compulsive shopping may be particularly susceptible to pre-trial attacks on the scientific reliability of the plaintiff's causation evidence, says Dechert Partner Sean Wajert, co-chair of the firm's pharmaceutical, mass tort and product liability practice group.
 
 
 
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