shopping addiction
Retail therapy disorder
Shopping addiction is a compulsive need to buy things regardless of need or financial consequences.
The behavior provides temporary emotional relief or excitement, followed by guilt or regret.
Also called compulsive buying disorder or oniomania in clinical contexts: Her shopping addiction left her drowning in credit card debt.
The term applies whether purchases happen in stores or online.
- compulsiveUnable to stop oneself
- overspendingExceeding one's budget
- retail therapyShopping to improve mood
- impulse buyingUnplanned purchase decision
- add to cartSave for online purchase
credit card debt · shopaholic · splurge · binge · mall · buy now pay later · cart · checkout · dopamine · thrill · guilt · buyer's remorse · closet · tags · packages · delivery · maxed out · financial ruin
- hoardinghoarding, clutter, accumulating, collecting, stockpiling
- consumerismconsumerism, consumers, consumer, buying, purchases
- addictionsubstance abuse, drug dependence, substance dependency, substance use disorder, alcoholism
- money disorderscompulsive spending, compulsive buying, compulsive gambling, money hoarding, affluenza
- wastefulnesswaste, squandering, extravagance, profligacy, dissipation
- fashion culturefashion blogs, fashion magazines, fashion weeks, runway trends, street style
shopping addictionfrugality
Economical resource management
thriftiness · financial discipline · self-control · fiscal restraint · thrift
shopping addictionminimalism
Aesthetic of reduction
anti-consumerism · non-materialism · asceticism · decluttering · simple living
shopping addictionimpulse control
Regulating sudden urges
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