What happens if compulsive spending is not treated?

What happens if compulsive spending is not treated?

Marc Kern (Addiction Expert, Director of Addiction Alternatives) gives expert video advice on: What is "shopping addiction"?; What causes shopping addiction?; Who becomes a shopping addict? and more...

Compulsive spending, generally, is not treated. It is more often than not just something that kind of ebbs and flows during the course of someone's entire life. There may be periods of time where the compulsive spending does reach proportions we would call an addiction, only to find that five or ten years later it has reasonably or totally subsided.