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back now with clinical psychologist jeff gardere. thanks for being here. talking about spending, compulsive versus impulsive spending. what s the difference here? impulsive spending is when you re not thinking about what you re doing. you re just going with the high, just going with the feeling. it looks good, let me do this and you aren t thinking about the consequences. compulsive shopping is a lot more serious. this is an addiction, something that you have to do and more of that self-medication that i was talking about if you re depressed, if you re anxious, if you have all sorts of other issues going on, you have to shop in order to feel better. really, what you should be doing is addressing what the real issue is. so compulsive shopping is much more dangerous. though impulsive shopping is not smart either. let s address them both. first impulse of shopping. what can people do to curb this? because they ultimately have control of their own wallets. yeah. i think basically y

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