Keyword: compulsive buying

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The Psychology of Financial Fear April 15, 2008

Host: Armand DiMele
Category: Anxiety & Fear, Emotions & Inner Life

Fear of financial ruin runs deeper than money, Armand DiMele argues, touching the soul itself. Callers share job loss, mounting debt, and creeping shame, while Armand connects compulsive buying disorder, depression-era mentality, and the surprising opportunity hardship can offer to relationships.

The Psychology of Clutter and Hoarding November 30, 2006

Host: Armand DiMele
Category: Addiction & Compulsion, Identity & The Self

Clutter is a habit; hoarding is an illness, and Armand DiMele draws a clear line between them. He traces hoarding to a fragile sense of self, fear of loss, and compulsive just-in-case thinking, then takes calls from listeners wrestling with their own accumulation and the anger and grief beneath it.