Selected Behavior Addiction: A Case Study

Selected Behavior Addiction

The behavioral addiction that I resonate with is shopping disorder. Similarly, this disorder is best known to society as a shopping addiction. However, this behavioral addiction is considered compulsive buying disorder which can be categorized as an “impulse control disorder” not otherwise specified in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM -5) (American Psychiatric Association 2013).

Basic criteria and prevalence of the addiction Kellett and Bolton (2009) state CBD has comorbidities that overlap with mood, anxiety, depression, substance abuse and eating disorders. Similarly, compulsive buying disorder is defined as an experience of an irresistible–uncontrollable urge, resulting in excessive, expensive and time-consuming retail activity. This activity is prompted by negative affectivity and results in gross social, personal and or financial difficulties (2009). Nonetheless people who meet this criterion may fall under an obsessive-compulsive disorder, or mild bipolar disorder as well. According to the Diagnostic and

Although men can become consumed with this disorder as well, as it is more commonly found in women. Compulsive shopping occurs in 6% of men and women, with both, can share many physiological and behavioral characteristics of addiction. Taking into consideration its prevalence, severe life consequences and the similarities of problem shopping behavior can lead to theft, job loss, and suicide (Hartston, 2012). The trigger of this disorder commonly results from a need to feel special, or the need to treat themselves to something special. Clients with this disorder experience highs and lows equally like all addiction disorders including substance addictions. Research suggest the result of released dopamine is pleasurable experience, and the brain is unable to distinguish between drugs or real experiences Hartston,