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When you feel down do you buy things to pick you back up?

  • Writer: Jacqueline Thompson
    Jacqueline Thompson
  • Apr 26, 2023
  • 1 min read

Updated: 6 days ago


A woman sat on a stone plant pot with her head in her hands. She is surrounded by shopping bags.
CBT Therapy for Addiction - Tackle the underlying reasons for addictive behaviour with CBT Therapy

What You Might Notice

You always have a reason to buy - online, supermarket or high street. You might find yourself struggling NOT not to spend money? Maybe this is putting you in and out of debt.


What Brings You To Therapy

It soon becomes a visions cycle and it’s not as easy as just not spending money.

Modern day addiction can take many forms, including shopping gambling, gaming, pornography, and sex. A kinder way to think about this condition is self soothing.


How Therapy Can Help

If can be difficult to control the impulse that drives this behaviour. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is a talking therapy proven effective in treating addiction. It helps break the cycle and form new, more healthy patterns of behaviour.


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