Many people will have hit the shops or gone online to bag a bargain in the January sales over the last few weeks and may now be feeling the pinch until their next payday. It is an annual tradition for some with tales of shoppers getting up in the middle of the night to secure the latest bargain. For other people though, shopping is not something that can be easily controlled and is used as a coping mechanism for anxiety and low self-esteem.
These compulsive shoppers are unable to resist strong inner urges to make repeated purchases and to spend excessively even when they cant afford to do so, or have no use for the product they buy.
Recent research indicates that compulsive buying behaviour affects almost 5% of the adult…
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