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": "Shopping addiction is a really scary addiction that can leave victims broke and helpless."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yeah I know that shopping addiction is often described as a deficiency of impulse control"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Do you think you can control your impulses? Such as just buying less at a time."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I think I can control my impulses more or less but I think everyone has a bit of an addictive personality. We all have those personality traits that lead to addictions just some more that others."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Do you consider shopping addiction to be a disease?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Only in as much as addiction is a disease, it is a brain disorder characterized by compulsive shopping."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Are all diseases considered genetic in their roots? Or are they acquired."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "There are some psycho social factors but most are of a biological nature. "}]