SHOPPING ADDICTION Name: Course details: Date: Shopping addiction is a behavioral addiction often referred to as `shopoholism` and also known as oniomania or compulsive shopping. This condition was identified in the nineteenth century and marked a psychiatric disorder in the twentieth century. [1]It normally begins in the early adulthood and is experienced by teenagers in their late teens .it mostly affects females as compared to males. Like any other
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Evynn McGinn Star Gibson Psychology 17 November 2013 Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder It is normal to go back and make sure you turned the curling iron off‚ or double check the doors to make sure they’re locked. But when a person suffers from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder‚ when you think you forget these regular‚ simple tasks it can run your whole day. Upon picking this topic and taking this class‚ I didn’t know about any of the diseases. OCD stuck out to me the most‚ and so I felt like it would
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ability to distinguish between a habit‚ and an obsession. Most importantly‚ however‚ thought it would be interesting to write a paper on something I did not already know that much about so that it would keep my interest. 2 Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is defined as an anxiety disorder where a person has recurrent unwanted ideas or impulses (called obsessions) and an urge or compulsion to do something to relieve the discomfort caused by the obsession (Mental Health Network‚ 2000)
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TOPIC 34: "Write about one of your family’s Tet holiday. Describe it in detail‚ tell how you feel about it and what it means to you." 1. I graduated from college 3 years ago and now I’m working for a company in Hanoi. My hometown is Ha Tinh province; I was born in a poor village where people live mainly by agriculture. After graduation‚ I decided to stay in this city‚ earn money to support my family. I hadn’t come back home to celebrate Tet for 2 years because of the high cost‚ it was a difficult
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Compulsive hoarding is the impulse to hold onto unnecessary items due to the idea that they hold some sort of emotional value. It is a severe problem that affects the United States and it can lead people to awful and unfortunate situations such as illness and even homelessness. Studies have shown that one in four people are hoarders with the leading causes being depression or loss of a loved one. It is also apparent that a large amount of the homeless population was evicted from their housing due
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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) Introduction Many people do not know what Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is. In fact‚ OCD is an anxiety disorder. We should know about the obsession and compulsion. To many patients‚ they are obsessive to some uncontrollable and unwanted thoughts or distress images. They might repeat their behaviors compulsively in order to neutralize the obsessive thoughts or to prevent some anxious events. (Butcher et al.‚ 2009) The influence of OCD on a person’s
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According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th ed.; DSM-V; American Psychiatric Association‚ 2013)‚ obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is defined by the experience of obsessions and/or compulsion. Obsessions are recurrent and persistent thoughts‚ urges or impulses that are experienced as intrusive and unwanted. This obsessions generally cause the feelings of anxiety. As a result patient applies compulsions‚ repetitive behaviors or mental acts‚ to neutralize the anxiety
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confidentiality‚ I will refer to my client as Julie throughout this case report. Referral Julie is a 19-year-old single female who was referred by her surgery based counsellor for Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)‚ to help with recurring obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) episodes. Whilst the referral did not identify any background history about Julie’s obsessions‚ the referral did suggest that these episodes ranged from mild to moderate in nature and had started when Julie was about sixteen years
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goal-oriented motives are more common among online shoppers than are experiential motives. Importantly‚ consumers report that shopping online results in a substantially increased sense of freedom and control as compared to offline shopping. Importantly‚ consumers report that shopping online results in a substantially increased sense of freedom and control as compared to offline shopping. Managerial Summary We learned a lot by doing this experiment. When you set out to try to find the trends of students
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Have you ever had a surge of worrying thoughts? Do you ask yourself‚ did I lock the car; did I turn off the lights? After these thoughts occurred‚ did you immediately check to make sure you locked your car‚ and turned off the lights? Though everyone has worrying thoughts‚ some of these thoughts may develop into unbearable obsessions. Some people cannot rid themselves of these obsessions‚ even though they are aware that their thoughts and actions are absurd. These people
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