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Compulsive shopping is not just a problem that some women have – it seems that men are just as likely to suffer from it, say researchers from Stanford University, USA. About 5% of adults in the USA say they cannot refrain from shopping for stuff …

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“Men Do Suffer from Compulsive Shopping”

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  1. Chris Dooley 7:22 pm on October 18th, 2006

    This isnt a ‘disorder’. Our society is set up so the educated advertisers find things in human instincts that would make the unknowledgable want to consume. These people with the ‘disorders’ are just humans who are not aware they are being manipulated by society.

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