Author: Dr. Shulman
Credibility: The Shulman Center is a treatment center for people with compulsive theft, spending, and hoarding.
What makes people want to spend money, even when theres no more money left to spend? Would you believe that some people can be diagnosed with a psychological desease that makes people compulsively shop with no control? Dr. Terrence Shulman is a clinical psychologists and founder of the Shulman Center for people with overspending, shoplifting, and hoarding disorders.
Shulman has helped hundreds of people with there disorders and believes he has cracked down on the causes of treatment methods of excessive spending. Shulman believes that causes of excessive spending are caused by:
- Emotional deprivation in childhood
- Inability to tolerate negative feelings
- Need to fill an inner void
- Excitement seeking
- Approval seeking
- Perfectionism
- Genuinely impulsive and compulsive
- Need to gain control
Shulman also stresses that addicts shop to relieve anxiety and to cope with bigger problems in their life.
Treatments for over spending involve gradual decrease in spending, cutting all charge cards, asking yourself if the item is needed, and shopping with a caring friend. People with severe cases of overspending consult psychiatric help with Centers like Shulman.
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