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Excessive buying and shopping can constitute a disorder, experts say

51 shares This will now be possible with the new framework, which essentially represents an agreement between 138 of the world s leading experts from 35 countries on diagnostic criteria for the disorder. The new framework determines at what point shopping becomes CBSD and can be used as the basis for the development of diagnostic interviews and measures of CBSD severity .   A key feature of the new diagnostic criteria is excessive purchasing of items without utilising them for their intended purposes . Excessiveness is described as diminished control over buying/shopping .  Another characteristic of the disorder is that buying/shopping is used to regulate internal states, e.g., generating positive emotions or relieving negative mood . 

A new framework to diagnose compulsive buying-shopping disorder

A new framework to diagnose compulsive buying-shopping disorder For the first time, international experts in psychology have built a framework to diagnose Compulsive Buying-Shopping Disorder - promising help for people struggling to manage their spending behavior and mental wellbeing. The new guidelines, published in the Journal of Behavioral Addictions, confirms that excessive buying and shopping can be so serious as to constitute a disorder, giving researchers and clinicians new powers to develop more targeted interventions for this debilitating condition. The international collaboration, led by Professor Mike Kyrios from Flinders University s Órama Institute for Mental Health and Wellbeing and Professor Astrid Müller from the Hannover Medical School in Germany, say evidence-based criteria for Compulsive Buying-Shopping Disorder (CBSD) are long overdue.

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