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After gathering data on demographics and income, the researchers used a standard screening instrument called the Compulsive Buying Scale to determine whether a person fit the criteria for the disorder.
Men Who Can't Stop Shopping E.J. Mundell 2006
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"Compulsive" Gambling, a progressive addiction characterized by increasing preoccupation with gambling, a need to bet more money more frequently, restlessness or irritability when attempting to stop, "chasing" losses, and loss of control manifested by continuation of the gambling behavior in spite of mounting, serious, negative consequences.
WN.com - Articles related to Survey: Limits Keep Teens From Bad Texting 2010
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"Compulsive" Gambling, a progressive addiction characterized by increasing preoccupation with gambling, a need to bet more money more frequently, restlessness or irritability when attempting to stop, "chasing" losses, and loss of control manifested by continuation of the gambling behavior in spite of mounting, serious, negative consequences.
WN.com - Articles related to Survey: Limits Keep Teens From Bad Texting 2010
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Compulsive naivete and infantilism seem to be byproducts of the computer age.
Hurricane Irene and Steve Jobs Daniel Henninger 2011
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Sanford clearly suffers from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
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Compulsive squalor: animal "collectors" and trash houses - Boing Boing
Boing Boing 2009
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Compulsive behaviors are often the result of un-processed traumas.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » The Only Way to Know If You’ll Be a Successful Writer 2010
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Compulsive Buying Scale Take a quiz to see if you may be a compulsive shopper.
Shop 'Til You Stop: How to Treat Compulsive Spending Melinda Beck 2011
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Greg Cartwright is a garage rock industry unto himself, an underground icon who's been cranking out hard-charging romps for two decades with bands such as the Oblivians, the Reigning Sound and the Compulsive Gamblers.
Really quick spins: Garage rock edition with John Wesley Coleman, Limes, Spider Bags, Last Year's Men and the Parting Gifts David Malitz 2010
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The child, it appears, may have autism and Obessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) -- and something called Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD).
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
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