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Compulsive Behaviors
Compulsive Overeating, Compulsive Shopping, Gambling, Hoarding
Plenty of people suffer from one form of compulsive behavior or another. There's compulsive shopping, hoarding, eating, gambling, or even pulling one's hair out. And of course there is garden variety obsessive compulsiveness. When a person has a compulsion, he is trapped in a pattern of repetitive and senseless thinking–indeed these are behaviors quite difficult to overcome.
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