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Shopaholic Wonderland
Ahh the holidays – time for eating great food, exchanging gifts, seeing friends and family, raising a cup of cheer, and shopping. Chances are you know a shopaholic but that isn’t polite to say.
Actually shopaholic is a humorous, media created word that really isn’t official medical language. The real term is oniomania- a term for those who show uncontrollable and/or compulsive behavior. The word is based on Greek words which mean “for sale” and “mania” (another word for crazy) so literally it means crazy for sales.
However if you’re a chrematophobia sufferer, you could never easily suffer from oniomania. (Chrematophobia is the fear of money or wealth.)
There is a phobia for everything out there and these phobias are great conversation starters at holiday parties: “Excuse me but do you suffer from enochlophobia?”
Maybe not.
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