Good morning class. As you all can notice, the theme of my oral presentation its about compulsive shopping.

Firstly Ill define what compulsive shopping is, the symptoms, causes, consequences and my opinion about it. So compulsive shopping is defined as an obsession with shopping that significantly interferes with the functioning of the individual, causing symptoms like anxiety when not shopping, when sad he tends to take refuge in purchases, doing excessive buying on things he do not need and lack of knowing on where to spend the money. Compulsive buying is a mental disorder, theres evidence that antidepressants tend to decrease anxiety and reduce or even stop this act. Just like any addiction, addiction to shop eventually becomes the main form of the person cope with stress, ultimately damaging their finances and relationships (like family bonds), even though the addicted wont stop buying. The majority of the causes of compulsive buying are psychological as: emotional deprivation in childhood; inability to tolerate negative feelings such as pain, depression, loneliness and so on; perfectionism; the need to fill and inner emptiness and many others.