Posted
9:04 AM
by Gene
Some people have a "mental" problem: they shop. A lot.The problem is widespread and serious enough that the American Psychiatric Association, which is updating its influential "bible" of mental disorders, is weighing whether to list compulsive buying as a disorder.
That proposal is sure to stir a long-running debate about whether psychiatry is turning every troubling aspect of human behavior into a disease. Why not? If anything can be a mental illness, everything can.
Blogging certianly is.