Compulsive Shopping Disorder and Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

A bad combination

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It’s that time of year when people around the United States overspend, trying to make their Christmas perfect. Folks run up their credit cards, wrap up their finds, and offer them as gifts.

However, for some survivors, this time of year is challenging because they have compulsive buying disorder. This article will focus on this mental health issue and, ultimately, list some things you can do to help yourself.

What is Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

To make how complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD) and compulsive buying disorder (CBD) go together, we must first tackle what the two disorders are.

First, let us examine CPTSD. Complex post-traumatic stress disorder is a condition caused by repeated child abuse of any kind. Some types of child abuse are sexual, physical, emotional, narcissistic, and neglect.

Since, unfortunately, childhood trauma is not rare, it is estimated that 70% of adults in the United States have experienced some childhood trauma. In addition, 90% of children who experience sexual abuse, 33% of those children exposed to community violence, and 77% of children who are involved in a school shooting will develop complex post-traumatic…