Compulsive Buying Disorder (CBD)

The United States department of commerce found out that the nation is becoming weaker. Economy had increased how consumers blow their paychecks on unnecessary items. For example, many Americans are not able to pay their rent, yet still buy play stations 4 and a 52 inch plasma TV. Most Americans spend money when going to a gas station, in game purchase or paying full price for clothes. People who pay for items in full price should be more responsible with their money. However, Alyssa Battistoni

Before reading the excerpts from “The Overspent American” I was not familiar with Juliet Schor’s work. While reading however, I saw that her views were different from many of the other authors that we have read so far. When I had finished the reading I found the reading enjoyable and fascinating. The reason that her writing intrigued me was because of her multiple perspectives while writing. Not only does she concentrate on the economics of American people, but she also uses a sociologist lens to show the purchasing habits of our culture. “The Overspent American” focuses on how we as a society have changed our spending patterns from the past. During the 1950s the phrase “keeping up with the Jones’” was coined and it represented Americans trying to outspend their neighbors and friends. For example, my friend buys a boat and I also need to buy a boat to make sure my friends saw me as being wealthy. Today our society as changed in many ways but Schor finds that our spending habits have altered the most since the 1950s. By analyzing and evaluating her work, one can see how Americans spending habits have changed over time and how our economics have been overtaken by television and broadcast media.

In the world buying the things you want compared to buying the things you need is a consist problem for many people in America. Depending on a person’s financial situation, they might never be able to buy the things they want and just focus on the things they need. Most middle class Americans focus on paying for essential things such as: food, water, housing, and transport. My views towards consumerism is that people should focus on quality overbecause there are some moments in life that lower quality things will have negative effects.

By taking the Mandated Reporter Training, I learned that by law, when the victim is under age 18, and perpetrator is any person, any physical injury, sexual abuse, cruelty, injury, and neglect must be reported by all legally mandated reporters. Physical abuse including abusive bruises and burns, broken bones, and any injury with a delay in seeking treatment or medical care. Also, when parents using objects such as belts or whips to discipline the child, it counts as physical abuse incident. But what is not physical abuse? Usually a reasonable and necessary force used by an officer or a person employed by a public school is not count as a physical abuse. After that, I think sexual abuse is even more severe than physical abuse, including inappropriate

Anna Quindlen, a novelist, social critic, and journalist wrote an intriguing essay “Stuff is Not Salvation” about the addiction of Americans, who splurge on materialistic items that have no real meaning. The ability to obtain credit is one of the main reasons to blame for society’s consumption epidemic. However, Quindlen feels the economic decline due to credit card debt is insignificant compared to the underlying issues of American’s binging problems. Quindlen’s essay gives excellent points regarding the differences in America’s typical shopping habits. Additionally, she mentions how people acquire all this “stuff” but seem to never realize, “why did I get this?”(501). Quindlen makes her

Buy, buy, buy. Spend, spend, spend. Day in and day out we are taught by society to buy and spend. This mentality plays such a large role in American society that shopping is no longer thought of as an "addiction", but simply a part of the "culture". The fact, Americans have become addicted to the act

I described in depth how materialism, low self-esteem, societies interests, gender roles, women’s beauty standards, and the comments and opinions of peers all influences and shapes the development of CBD in women. If we could all become more kind-hearted and open-minded it would allow people, specifically compulsive shoppers to feel more comfortable letting go of the meaning of beauty standards and gender roles that we still hang onto. We could care more about each other’s emotions and feelings instead of what we see on the outside. We could also reverse our trends and grow into a less materialistic country. This is an extreme shift in society that would take years to change. However, our society may need it at some point if we continue to let people develop disorders like CBD, allow our peers to not accept it as a serious issue, and not ensure treatments are found for the ones suffering from it. My research will probably not change all of these thing, but I hope it instead teaches readers about what compulsive buying really is. In addition, be helpful to identify it people around you who could be silently dealing with this disorder and what you can do to attempt

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Up to 5% of the world’s population displays some sign of clinic hoarding. Hoarding involves the compulsive acquisition and accumulation of objects, animals, and trash and other debris. The hoarder, who often has another mental illness such as depression, is unable or unwilling to discard items, frequently resulting in health and safety hazards to those who reside in or visit the dwelling (Hurd, 2015). Hoarding can affect many aspects of one’s life causing severe problems and can begin as early as adolescent years continuing through elderly life.

They are avid consumers, spending heavily on clothing, fast-foods, music, and other youthful favorites, with particular emphasis on new products and services(Roger. 1983).

The average American spends over 140 dollars a day, and the majority of that it on items that are unnecessary to buy. Most of this money the average American is spending is money they don’t really have. These items are bought with credit which then ends up leading to a big hole of debt. If americans do not stop listening to the advertisers and stop falling into debt with the help of credit cards, consumerism will only continue to grow. Americans need to realize who’s to blame for our consumerism problem.

As the world changes, society and new technologies are developed to the point of buying things without seeing them till they get to our house.

Hoarding disorder is a type of obsessive-compulsive disorder that is characterized by a difficulty of discarding or giving away items because of the alleged need to have them (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). There are many things that contribute to people developing this disorder, such as biological, psychological, and social factors. In the case of Jenny Irvine, a 35-year-old woman, symptoms started at a young age and developed into a serious case of hoarding disorder that she eventually sought out treatment for. In analyzing Jenny’s scenario, it is clear that there were major factors that played into her development hoarding disorder that can be traced back to her childhood through evaluating her symptoms and background information provided.

The term scientific of the shopping addiction is "oniomania" and this word derived from two words, the first word is "onio" which means sale and the other word is "mania" which means craze or obsession. In the culture of psychiatry referred to this type of drug addiction that buy a lot and not satisfying the rights, and suffers from this turmoil to both men and women by almost equal and not women only as some say, but we cannot deny that women have the capacity of enormous purchasing power. But is this an addiction in the true sense of such as drugs addiction? If human resort to buy motivated by alleviating the pressure may have suffered or as a result of suffering from serious concern or aborting, it is the truth to the kind of addiction.

However, having an impulse to buy does not automatically imply acting upon it. Numerous factors may interfere between having the impulse to buy and actual buying, (Dholakia, 2000). In truth, individuals practice innumerable strategies to have some control on this craving (Hock and Loewenstein, 1991). This difference has also been validated empirically. For example, Beatty & Ferrell (1998) empirically proved the compulsion to detach the impulse to buy from actual buying behavior with the help of admirable performance of model they presented when impulse buying was considered to be the only dependent variable. Likewise, prevailing researches (e.g. Beatty and Ferrell, 1998) also indicate that for buying impulse the determinants may not essentially predict impulse buying. It means that not every impulse to buy can be translated as an actual buying