In 90% - are women. Just ...

At 90% - are women. Only in the USA oniomania there are about 15 million, yet 55 million are at risk of addiction. American Psychological Association has considered this syndrome disease. In the United States, even a society like alcoholics anonymous - anonymous debtors with over 400 offices across America. In England, from two to ten percent of adults suffer from obsessive craving "to shopping - about 700 thousand people. Englishwomen 52% agreed that shopping brings them more pleasure than sex!" At the same time the British shopping is absolutely contraindicated in: one in five Britons caught in shop queues, shaking fits of anger, accompanied by dangerous jumps in blood pressure. In Germany there are about 5% oniomania, and 20% of the residents of Germany can not always refrain from buying their vending goods in a shop window. In women, this relationship is manifested in ten times more frequently than males (data University of Stuttgart Hohenheim (Hohenheim). shopping addiction affects half of adolescent girls in Italy, Spain and Scotland. Psychiatrists believe that oniomania suffered for 10% of the world's population and the epidemic will cover more and more people. If before suffering the disease in search of new things to raid supermarkets and boutiques, but now most of the purchases oniomany committed through the Internet, TV-shop or colorful catalog mailings. Retail sales rose in April of this year compared with the same period last year, fixing the prices at 9 %. Estonians are buying more, despite the fact that the average salary in the country 6 times lower than the average wage in the EU. It has a factor of television advertising. Every inhabitant of Estonia holds before the TV screen more than four hours each day. In April, retailers have sold goods to 2.9 billion kroons, - informs the Department of Statistics. Retail sales of enterprises selling mainly food, have increased compared with April last year by 12%, sales of companies that sell manufactured goods increased by 5% . Most of all, 27%, increased retail sales of manufactured goods in non-specialized stores. Since the beginning of the year retail sales of retail trade enterprises increased compared with last year, in stable prices by 10%. (Source: Delfi.ee, 30.05.05) Social consequences of a pathological addiction oniomania: - debt, none of the family budget can not withstand such a financial burden, he immediately begins to crack apart at the seams, for this reason that lay at home, family values. - committing thefts in shops and supermarkets, take away the last of his money home, cheating, and even prostitution. - family breakdown, divorce, family disputes, personal injury. Prohibitive measures produce only aggression and autoaggression. The Health Consequences: - psychosomatic disorders: arrhythmia, vegetative-vascular dystonia, hypertension, diskinizii bile ducts, gastritis , peptic ulcer, chronic colitis, and others. - depression, anxiety neurosis, persistent sleep disturbance, aggression and autoagresii and others., immune suppression, and as a consequence, frequent colds.