Technology Is Fuelling and Fighting Compulsive Shopping

Compulsive shopping isn’t just an internet phenomenon. About a century ago, the German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin

combining the Greek onios, which means “for sale,” and mania, as in “insanity.”

But there are indications it’s getting worse. A 2016 study noted that the “frequency of [compulsive buying behaviour] has increased worldwide during the two last decades,” estimating it to occur in 4.9…