Definition Behavioral Addiction
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Have you ever curious as to how or why someone can be addicted to an activity. People are often very slow to realize whether they are addicted or not. There are two kinds of addiction substance addiction and behavioral addiction. Substance addiction is relying on material to survive for living different with behavioral addiction is a physical compulsive need and use of a habit activity. Many addictions start when someone felt insecure about him/herself, he has unsolved problems, inconvenient about him/herself so they found any activity to do. Shopaholism and Webaholism are two different activity addicts but those have almost the same cause, symptoms, and syndromes.
Shopaholism is obsessed about shopping. When he/she felt desolated or discourage about him/herself, he would find something to do and some people thought that shopping was one of the best thing to do. A shopaholic would buy anything she/he wanted and even useless goods because that would make him/her felt cheer for a moment but he did not think what would happen afterward. He felt lamentably and that could induce him to bankruptcy...