i have a shopping addiction.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Shopping addiction is defined as the deficiency of impulse control which appears as the eagerness for constantly making new purchases of unnecessary or superfluous things. It is a concept similar to \"compulsive buying disorder\" and \"oniomania\", although these terms usually have a more clinical approach, related to a psychological individual disorder of impulse control. The phrase \u201cshopping addiction\u201d usually has a more psychosocial perspective . or it is placed among drug-free addictions like the addiction to gambling, Internet, or video-games. There are three kinds of behavioural manifestations of shopping addiction, with different repercussions. These can be displayed together or independently and in more or less intense ways. Nevertheless, they are closely related and appear joined in people who seriously suffer from this disorder. First is the attraction towards the consumer stimulus, which is the addiction to purchasing as a leisure activity. This is about the uncontrolled and excessive draw to use shopping as a leisure activity, usually in an exclusive and overwhelming way. While activities such as window-shopping, visiting shops or spending time in commercial centres is a common and socially accepted desire activity, an addict is differentiated as one in whom this excessive attraction to purchase interferes with the normal development of life and damages their relationships with others, becoming an obsessive and uncontrolled activity.\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I love to go shopping!  It is therapeutic for me!  Do you enjoy it?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I hate to shop. I have poor impulse control, but not with making new purchases of unnecessary things.  Do you have a problem?"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I don't think I have a problem.  On the other hand, I can't wait to go shopping every day!  how can I tell if I do have a problem?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Well, compulsive buying disorder happens when your shopping behavior has negative consequences.  Does your shopping do that?"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I guess racking up my credit card would be a negative consequence, right?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yes.  Incurring unsecured debt (like with a credit card) means you could be a compulsive debtor as well."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Ouch!  I guess I do have a problem then!  What should I do to correct this?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "You might start with attending a meeting for Debtors Anonymous.  It's a 12 step program.  That would probably help the shopping, too."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Wow!  I didn't even know that existed!  I will have to look into it."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "DA stresses careful record keeping so you can monitor your finances.  I think it could really help!"}]