How to Help a Loved One With a Shopping Addiction? She Won’t Admit She Has a Problem.?
Question by Mark A: How to help a loved one with a shopping addiction? She won’t admit she has a problem.?
My mother in-law has a seriuos shopping addiction. She stays up all night watching home shopping club, she has literally hundreds of unopened boxes, and keeps on going. She has incurred over $ 75,000 in debt. Her husband is in a rest home and she has nobody to answer to. We try to offer suggestions or advice, but she only gets angry and feels we are trying to control her life. This greatly upsets my wife. Any advice would be sppreciated.
Best answer:
Answer by lovelorn
Well, unless you get her declared incapacitated, there is not much you can do. She’s an adult and can get herself into debt if she wants. Someone should really raid her wallet and cut up her credit cards. The only thing you can do is have her face up to the debt she has and have her answer how she is going to handle it. Explain to her she is putting her home or pension in jeopardy, that creditors can come after her savings, etc. You could always try approaching any friends of her or siblings of hers to also talk to her. Does she visit her husband in the home? Can he talk to her if someone told him what is going on? Find out if there are any compulsive disorder support groups where she is and give the details of the organization.
Know better? Leave your own answer in the comments!
My shopping addiction goes bad please help – This video was uploaded from an Android phone.
On the front lines of homelessness: 'We're just here to help people stay alive'
Filed under: shopping addiction help
“They see the intoxication or addiction instead of the human.” As we take Charlie from Alpha House to his home at Foothills Hospital, Thomas talks about how the team's successes can sometimes come when they're having the very worst of days, helping …
Read more on Calgary Herald
Keeping leash on addicts' spending
Filed under: shopping addiction help
So a trio of recovering addicts designed a debit card to help plug the kind of spending loopholes that derail people on the road to recovery. Launched this fall, the Next Step MasterCard is the first reloadable prepaid card that allows parents and …
Read more on Boston Herald
Rivals for a cause
Filed under: shopping addiction help
"We're helping our community by collecting all these toys, money and all that we have, knowing they'll have a nice Christmas." The event … We have GED programs, drug and alcohol addiction programs. … They knew they were shopping for other people.
Read more on Warren Tribune Chronicle
From Twitter:
RT @MyLifeAsLynsey: Yeah, I might have a shopping addiction. But no, I don’t need help. ** – by YoHelenTheMelon (falen)
From Twitter:
Yeah, I might have a shopping addiction. But no, I don’t need help. ** – by MyLifeAsLynsey (Lynsey MacDonald )
From Twitter:
CURSE YOU VIAL SHOPPING ADDICTION!!!! #why? #IJustLoveStuff #help http://t.co/2wIctXwJ – by EmmaIrwin (Emma Irwin)