Sentence examples for pathological buying from inspiring English sources

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Shopping addiction has many names -- pathological buying, compulsive buying, buying addiction, and oniomania.

For pathological buying itself, cognitive behavioral therapy with a mental health professional has been shown to be helpful.

Pathological buying can also be associated with or a sign of other psychological issues, like anxiety, depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, hoarding, or mania.

People with pathological buying feel preoccupied with shopping and feel like they have no control over it, even if it leads to severe work or relationship problems, or financial bankruptcy.

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How is pathological online buying different from the average shopper?

People compulsively need to get new stuff all the time, and I think that those circumstances, like how people are trying to rebirth themselves by buying new clothes and new things without the inability to stop doing this, is very pathological".

And S.S.R.I.'s are just the capstones of the consumer marketplace: the Gap convinces shoppers they need gray T-shirts and khakis; then, the therapy industry persuades them they have a problem for buying so many clothes, and finally, the drug companies influence them to take pills to cure their pathological desire for gray T-shirts and khakis.

Buying patterns.

When we buy food, we're often buying packaging, too.

You're buying an inhaler.

All these youths would need to indulge in such "social pathological phenomena" is $10,000 to buy the currency.

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