I Solved My Paralyzing Shopping Addiction

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I knew I had an addiction when I began to plan the daily shopping trips — the ones that would eventually bound me by chains and cripple my emotional health.

I am a recovered shopaholic and know a thing or two about excessive spending. There was a time when shopping was my daily drug — one that I needed my daily dose of just to get by. I was about 19 at the time and knew my obsession with…