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Grant, a psychiatrist who codirects the Impulse Control Disorders Clinic at the University of Minnesota and who is an expert on ICDs. “ Nowhere is the therapeutic alliance more important than in the work therapists do with people who have impulse-control disorders. ” —Linda Seligman and Lourie W. Reichenberg, coauthors of the book Selecting Effective Treatments. M ental health professionals who treat patients with ICDs are the first to acknowledge that the disorders can be extremely tough to overcome.

He cleaned out his daughters’ college fund, forged his wife’s name on a $200,000 mortgage, and began making unauthorized withdrawals from his clients’ acThe inevitable recounts. ”59 ological gamblers Burke reached rock bottom with such anguish one night in September 2000. that they decide life Overcome with self-loathing and is no longer worth despair, he sat alone in his office, living—and the held a gun to his temple, and high suicide rate is prepared to pull the trigger— evidence of that. then had a sudden change of heart and put the weapon down.

Says University of Iowa psychiatry professor Donald W. ”53 As is typical of people with ICDs, compulsive buyers feel a rush of pleasure after a shopping spree. The thrill fades fast, though, and is soon replaced by regret, guilt, and fears about being unable to stop. Rachel Diaz knows from personal experience the extreme highs and lows of being a compulsive buyer. Unhappy in her marriage and stressed out from a high-pressure sales job, she turned to shopping as a source of relief. Diaz says it was the one thing that made her feel empowered when so much about her life was going wrong.

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