Shopping addiction is scary - I've only ever known one person with it though, and funilly enough it was a guy - he'd buy - just plain old junk (CDs even if he didn't like the artists, books he wouldn't read), and feel guilty because he'd spent too much, and the guilt would make him feel really bad, so he'd spend even more in an effort to make himself feel better - only obviously, it didn't...
This was a fair while ago, when I was still in college - he was only 18, and had racked up £20,000 (around $40,000) - in just one academic year.
I was a student union rep and he came to me for debt help - I've no idea if he ever got his problem sorted though, last I heard he was seeing the campus counsellor to find out why he felt the need to spend.
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