Talk:Shopaholic

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I was wondering - can't compulsive shopping possibly be a real problem? I've heard they have therapy for these kind of behaviours, and that they are sometimes related to depression of some sort. But I don't know much about it

Yes it can. There are two (free & nonprofit) 12 Step Programs for that (and one has a Wikipedia article). The first is "Debtors Anonymous" and the other is Shopaholics Anonymous. Debtors Anonymous, although it seems to be less related (because of its name) is actually significantly focused on helping people with shopping addiction, along with other debt-incurring money addictions or compulsions. Debtors Anonymous sees addiction to 'debting' (getting into unhealthy debt as a compulsive habit or addiction) as being the underlying issue with compulsive shopping or shopaholism. Hence the name.

It should however be noted that there are also other patterns of compulsive debting (you can also be a compulsive debtor without being a shopaholic, for example, by being a compulsive underearner or by being addicted to incurring unsecured debt in other ways). People with all of these patterns are welcomed and helped in Debtors Anonymous.

69.171.160.111 (talk) 18:56, 13 December 2009 (UTC)