Hi Martina! Well, I've got it a little different, so thought it'd be worth posting. Generally speaking, I'm very frugal. I like to consider it a venue for creativity (which is the one postive I have in boatloads -- hehe, constantly try to keep remembering when trying to counter negative self-esteem/talk). Also, I truly *don't* have it to spend, and absolutely *refuse* to go into debt. It would just stress me out way too much, and there's plenty enough to stress out over without it.

But, there are definitely spells where I get...compulsive(?) Not big things, but... they seem to be catagorical. Ebay has been a big problem for me, being able to search specific catagories for the whatever the obsession of a given spell is. Ok, ask yourself, just how many hand fans could a person possibly need? Bet the answer isn't 27, but that's just how many I ended up with during one of these sprees. It may well be connected to hypomanias, but, because I wasn't diagnosed for so long, it's hard to say. May well be. (The evidence in other areas --like huge productivity and crazy projects-- is, shall we say, more obvious. )