Another word for unnecessary behavior
The phenomenon of compulsive buying tends to affect women rather than men. Compulsive buying disorder usually mainly affected young people as several reports put in that most interviewees reported to be in the range of 17.5 to 19 years. Onset of CBD occurs in the late teens and early twenties and is generally chronic. People who score highly on compulsive buying scales tend to understand their feelings poorly and have low tolerance for unpleasant psychological states such as negative moods. Characteristics ĬBD is frequently comorbid with mood, anxiety, substance abuse and eating disorders. However, little interest was taken in CBD until the 1990s, and, even in the 21st century, compulsive shopping can be considered a barely recognised mental illness. Emil Kraepelin described oniomania as of 1909, and he and Bleuler both included the syndrome in their influential early psychiatric textbooks. In his book Degeneration (1892), Nordau calls oniomania or "buying craze" a "stigma of degeneration". Magnan describes compulsive buying as a symptom of degeneration. 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).