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How Is Shopping Addiction Like Other Addictions?

There are several charecteristics that shopping addiction shares with other addictions. As with other addictions, shopping addicts become peoccupied with spending devote significant time and money to the activity. Actual spending s important to the process of shopping addiction; window shopping does not constitute an addiction, and the addictive pattern is actually drive by the process of spending money.

As with other addctions, shopping addiction is highly ritualized and llows a typically addictive pattern of thoughts about shopping, planning shopping trips, and the shopping act itself, often described as pleasurable, ecstatic even, and as providing relief from negative feelings. Finally, the shooper creshes, withe feelings of disappointment.