For you that have habit to shopping be careful it becomes one of mental health disorders. The expert from Australia claims that crazy shopping is a serious disease that related with a serious mental disorder known as hoarding compulsive.
Hoarding Compulsive is a strong drive to get items that are not useful for a satisfaction.
“About 80 percent of people who have a compulsive hoarding disorder is one crazy shopping (Shopaholics) which is continuously always get new stuff,” said Dr. Randy Frost an expert from Australia.
Dr Frost presented a workshop on this issue in the event 27th International Congress of Applied Psychology (ICAP) in Melbourne, Australia. He also revealed that this disorder affects about 2-5 percent of the public.
However, this condition is different from obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), because in patients with OCD are usually driven by anxiety, stress or fear. Meanwhile, people who have compulsive hoarding as spending are based on the pleasure or interest in a particular object.
“Very few doctors who know how to properly treat this disorder, although in certain cases this can be life-threatening someone, especially if he is stockpiling dangerous goods such as flammable goods,” he said.
Dr. Frost is also a professor of psychology at Smith College, Massachusetts said that usually people who like to hoard these goods believe that there are parts of his life that would be lost if the goods are removed. And also arises a sense of great loss or exceeds the anxiety and sadness when removing these items.
This behavior is often seen in related with other mental disorders. Therefore, about 25 percent of people who like this compulsively hoard goods suffer from mental disorders and about 50 percent suffered clinical depression.
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