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": "assistant", "content": "I have a shopping addiction. I am always eager to make new purchase  of unnecessary or superfluous things."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Aww I;m sorry to hear that.  Have you sought professional help about it?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "No i have not. I do not think i have to since it is a  drug-free addictions and it is not as bad as addiction to gambling, Internet, or video-games."}, {"role": "user", "content": "You can still seek psychological help for such an issue.  It's best to at least get a professional opinion about it"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Well, maybe it could encourage behaviors that build wellness and emotional resilience to my  physical, mental and emotional problems."}, {"role": "user", "content": "You could even forumlate a banking-based strategy where your funds are held and doled out on a pre-agreed rate, to curb impulse buying"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "DO you think that will help. Maybe i can try that. But why should it be viewed that i have a disease or a choice."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I think it's more being viewed as a \"struggle\" than a disease.  In this case, it's best to get a strategy to help with it so you don't spend all your money"}]