Any ADHD women there who are shopaholic and in debt? :)

We can also use our ADHD to our advantage. If you’re in a shop and you see something shiny, you can tell yourself you’ll come back next week and buy it. This is a great hack because it bypasses the part of our brain that’s resistant to authority. You’re not telling yourself you can’t have the thing, you’re telling yourself you can have the thing la

compulsive shopper. I was a compulsive binge consumer of everything, really, including food and alcohol. I didn’t even know how to stop myself from binging on television for hours on end, something I wasted all the rest of my time in my 20s doing when I wasn’t out actually getting wasted.

Chronic overspending Other disorders of impulse control like kleptomania and pyromania