Shopping addiction can be a mental disorder
(WorldNews India)

In the 2009 smash hit `Confessions of a Shopaholic´, based on a book by Sophie Kinsella, the lead character cutely admits to having a problem when her shopping bills went above the head. Cut to 2018 and excessive shopping bills don´t seem so harmless anymore. A recent study conducted by Hannover Medical School is calling for compulsive shopping disorder to be recognised as a mental illness. This compulsive buying disorder, termed `oniomania´, has been seen in some form or the other in 7 per cent of adults with numbers in the US and Europe rising. What is it? Do you feel this urge to buy something new whenever you are sad or...