Despite what you may think compulsive shopping is not the preserve of the fairer sex. At least in Spain. Where more than 40% of the population is affected and even as much as 17% need to get in therapy for detoxification from what is a real disease as soon as possible. Confirmed by the fact that in this period of severe economic crisis it has seen a significant increase in people who can not help but buy any product for the sheer pleasure of doing so. A behavioral disorder as dangerous as difficult to detect because it is hidden behind an activity, spending, socially acceptable, more so at Christmas time. According to consumers psychologists, this disease is usually discovered only after years and years, long after the person concerned is in an ambiguous state of economic ruin. To prevent this obvious conclusion researchers in Valencia have developed a mathematical model to calculate the consequences of addiction to shopping.
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