Not only cigarettes,but also alcohol or drugs can be addictive. You can
addicted to easting sweets, visiting the fortune-teller or doing the shopping. Although buying
things does not ruin one's health and is not harmful to society ,it can be a real nuisance.
Victims of shopaholism are usually women who become obessive about spending
money and buy more and more unnecessary things. The cannont imagine the live without the possibility
of visiting the shops and spending long hours among the shelves and racks.
They buy for many reasons . Some want to gain prestige ; others do it out of
curiosity or just to indulge their whims. Most women,however ,become addicted to shopping because of serious emotional problems. The consider buying as their only pleasure and a kind of compenstation for their diffucult childhood or hard work. The act of buying is a way of escaping from their unsolved problems and for a moment it makes them feel happy. Unfortunately, when they come back home with their new trophy , they feel guilty and their good mood suddenly disappears. The thing they bought does not give any pleasure.
Instead,it makes them feel angry that,yet again, they were too weak to resist temptation and senselessly spent their money.
In Poland the problem of shopaholism is affecting more and more people.
With the emergence of the huge shopping centres and hypermarkets offering various bargains, discounts
and promotions.
The best advice then is to take a list of essential products to buy and become immune to the various sales and aggressive advertising. It is also necessary to have another source of self-esteem than that of purchasing goods which usually does not provide long-lasting satisfaction. Therefore, all shopaholics should rather try to find a better source of pleasure than a new dress or trinket.