I think I may be too obsessive and I a may have an addictive personality.
I used to take drugs and drink when I was a teen but I gave that up.
Now though I find myself being obsessed with counting money and spending money. I spend a lot of time planning budgets that run for months in the future listing everything I will be spending money on, then I will go out to take my duughter to playgroup ro something and end up in town spending too much money on things that I didn't need yesterday but now seem essential to my mind. Then of course the budget is blown so I have to make a new revised budget and then the same things happen again.
My family has always been very poor and I am not well off now, but considerably more comfortable than when I was a child.
Why is it that I am so obsessed with money? Is it an addictive personality, because my parents are poor or a bit of both?
And what can I do to stop needlessly spending money and thinking about money all the time?
2007-01-17 00:50:22 · 7 answers · asked by cigaro19 5 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
I am not going to claim to know what the issue is, however, I found this question because I suffer from the same thing (kinda).
I have a good paying job and will HOARD MONEY in my accounts (i.e. not pay my bills) and then spend LARGE amounts on stupid stuff. Whatever the fad of the month is, that is where my money goes and then I have JUST ENOUGH to pay off the bills. So I am also counting, watching, double checking, budgetting, cutting corners, etc.
I wish I knew what the answer was, because I know I need help.. but I don't really know where to start!
I guess the reason for my post was just to tell you "You are not alone!"
2007-01-18 05:41:49 · answer #1 · answered by homan_gene 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are a bit obsessive about money. If yu are going to make a budget and want to stick with it, don't carry money, or credit cards with you when you go out. This is not an addiction necessarily. Addictive behavior is more like if you find yourself buying more and more of the same thing to curb a percieved need.
2007-01-17 08:58:01 · answer #2 · answered by fangtaiyang 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Makes sense.
You have an addictive personality. Because you have give up the drugs (good for you) You are looking for other things to obsess about.
I am the same.
2007-01-17 08:57:34 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The truth is that someone who quit drugs is very difficult to get back to normal without help.I mean you try to find something else to be obsessed.It could be anything..shopping,TV,food,....
2007-01-19 06:49:51 · answer #4 · answered by Erina♣Liszt's Girl 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
u could Hav ocd ( obsessive compulsive disorder) ask 2 c a psychologist
2007-01-17 09:02:35 · answer #5 · answered by Quinn 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Just stop, think of your doughter, if you spend like that you are going to be left with nothing.
2007-01-17 08:56:45 · answer #6 · answered by NENA 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
don't spend for about a month or so and save it next months wages use on next month save extra for the next
in other words save up
2007-01-17 08:55:21 · answer #7 · answered by jeffy v 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋