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Guest commentary by Nicholas Regush of Red Flags WeeklyThis is a WebMD Medical News story found at AOL.COM. It refers to a study of 24 people and how the antidepressant Celexa helped battle a shopping compulsion.

Aside from the fact that a fuss was made by AOL and WebMd about such a pithy study, we’re also very curious to know how "the study shows that the disorder [shopping compulsive disorder"] affects between 2% and 8% of the U.S. population." Sure, some people may go right over the bend, but can we please have some qualification here and some social perspective? It is this kind of health journalism that makes a mockery of science. And overall, this is yet another example of how modern psychiatry can no longer be taken seriously, as practically everything produced by the culture can be labeled a disorder.
For example, how about compulsive advertising syndrome?
And compulsive PR syndrome?
 And compulsive hype medical journalism syndrome?
And compulsive let’s-help-the-drug-industry syndrome?

WebMd and AOL should be ashamed of peddling this shopping disorder nonsense.