compulsive buying, sometimes called addictive shopping, is not a recognized psychiatric diagnosis, but it is now being considered for inclusion in the next edition of the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders 强迫购物症,有时称为购物癖,目前还不是已被认知的心理诊断,但在新版心智异常诊断与统计手册中将考虑加入。
compulsive buying is just as common in men as in women, a nationwide telephone survey has found, and in its extreme forms may be a psychiatric illness ? an impulse control disorder associated with abnormal levels of depression and anxiety 一项全国性电话调查发现,强迫购物症男女一样常见,而且在最极端的情形下,可能是一种精神病学疾病,因不正常的忧郁和焦虑而引起的冲动控制失序症或障碍。