One in three people in Spain ‘are clinical shopaholics’
Monday, January 28, 2013 @ 5:10 PM
A THIRD of Spain’s adult population is addicted to shopping, and their ‘condition’ gets worse during the sales or at Christmas. This was revealed recently by Dr Manuel Armayones, professor of psychology at Catalunya Open University (UOC). He said mass purchases and impulse buys are more ‘socially-acceptable’ during sales and at Christmas, which means closet addicts tend to ‘let themselves off’, their guilt subsiding and their problem going unnoticed.
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