Compulsive buying disorder
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"It is so firmly imprinted and so peculiar that Magnan declares it to be a stigma of degeneration, and has invented for it the name ‘oniomania,’ or ‘buying craze.’ [...] The oniomaniac neither buys enormous quantities of one and the same thing, nor is the price a matter of indifference to him as with the paralytic. He is simply unable to pass by any lumber without feeling an impulse to acquire it."--Degeneration (1892) by Max Nordau |
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Oniomania - a medical term for shopaholic (from Greek onios = "for sale," mania = insanity: coined by German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin) more commonly reffered to as shopping addiction or shopaholism, is the compulsive desire to shop. It is not recognized as a disorder by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) manual DSM-IV however, that may change as more is learned about the brain chemistry of compulsive behavior Kraepplin along with Swiss psychiatrist, Eugen Bleuler started conducting studies by first identifying the symptoms associated with oniomania during the late nineteenth century. Oniomania has received increased media attention despite the fact that it does not meet the criteria under the DSM-IV.
History
According to German physician Max Nordau, French psychiatrist Valentin Magnan coined the term oniomania in the 1892 German translation of his Psychiatric Lectures (Psychiatrische Vorlesungen). Magnan describes compulsive buying as a symptom of social degeneration. In his book Degeneration (1892), Nordau calls oniomania or "buying craze" a "stigma of degeneration". and he and Bleuler both included the syndrome in their influential early psychiatric textbooks. Kraepelin described oniomania as "a pathological desire to buy... without any actual need and in great quantities", considering it alongside kleptomania and other conditions that were thought to be related to impulsivity (of the type nowadays denoted impulse control disorders).
Relatively little interest seems to have been taken in collocating CBD as a distinct pathology until the 1990s. It has been suggested that even in the 21st century, compulsive shopping can be considered a barely recognised mental illness. Since 2019, ICD-11 (the 11th revision of the International Classification of Diseases) has classified it among "other specified impulse control disorders" (coded as Template:ICD11), using the descriptor compulsive buying-shopping disorder.
