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Dear Martina,

Just a thought here...did you spend the money on things you needed & really had planned to buy at some stage? Or was it an urge to shop and spend indiscriminately? There is a difference in the type of spending, spending money on other people without restraint is another symptom.

In each case you have a set of rules so to speak on how they activity pans out; maybe some research on those will give you a better or clearer idea on what is actually happening, then you can take that to the doctor and get him to understand where you are coming from?

Rhi