In "What's New? Exuberance for Novelty Has Benefits," John Tierney writes: As researchers analyzed its genetic roots and relations to the brain's dopamine system, they linked this [novelty-seeking] with problems like attention deficit disorder, compulsive spending and gambling, alcoholism, drug abuse and criminal behavior.
Donald Black, a psychiatrist at the University of Iowa College of Medicine, studies a third money-related problem: compulsive spending.
David Krueger, a Houston-based psychoanalyst, points out that compulsive spending, gambling and shoplifting provide thrills that many people use to compensate for an overwhelming sense of emptiness and abandonment.
Avoid compulsive spending.
It doesn't matter if it is due to compulsive spending, medical bills, emergencies or anything else.
Have you been unsuccessful when you try and stop your compulsive spending?
"People are tightening their belts temporarily," says Terrence Daryl Shulman, an addiction expert and founder of the Shuman Center for compulsive theft and spending.
But the book makes for compulsive reading.
/ It is not responsible for compulsive behavior with regards to drugs, alcohol, compulsive gambling, religiosity.
Both players, for quite different reason, make for compulsive watching.
