Eating Disorders: Oniomania

“It’s like having an itch and they have got to scratch it. And they don’t realize that just like an itch, if they don’t scratch it sooner or later the itch will go away”. This is how can be described shop holism known as well as oniomania or buying mania considered an impulsive pathology characterized by excessive, impulsive and uncontrollable consumption of goods or services. Oniomania came from Greek” word onios”, which means “for sale”. The problems that appear with shopping addiction are very similar to those disorders such as alcoholism or drug addiction. Shopping addicted people can experience a high due to neurological chemicals. According to Ruth Engs from Indiana University some people develop shopping addiction because their brain releases endorphins and dopamine while shopping, and over time this feeling become addicted. In reality our society doesn’t accept shopping addiction very seriously explaining …show more content…
Children who had lack of proper care and attention from their parent, feel unimportant and have a low self-esteem when they grow up. This causes them to empty and they try to fill this sense of emptiness with physical comforts such as clothing, luxury items or even buying some services help them to compensate their depression.
According to psychologist Paul Wachtel “the more you believe that happiness comes from material wealth, the more likely you are to be depressed, distressed, and anxious”. Shopping addiction as I mentioned earlier, was inversely related to self-esteem, by shopping shopaholics try to avoid reality in which they have problems. It is believed that shopping addiction is mostly common among women. According to a Stanford university study the worldwide prevalence of this behavior is 5.8 percent, from this 80 present are women. Shopping addiction also affects 8.9 percent of the population in the United States of