What to do if your friend has a shopping addiction?

Help from Friends: Support your friend. If you have a friend who has a shopping addiction, the best thing you can do for them is to provide support. Financial help. Don’t pay the bills for the shopping addict because this will only facilitate their shopping addiction further. Counseling.

What’s the best way to help a friend?

After all, you don’t understand your friend’s problem as much as they do. Ask your friend before you do anything to help them rectify the situation. See how they feel about it (unless they are in danger or being abused, then you have to tell someone immediately).

How does Age UK help with food shopping?

Age UK runs local food shopping services which have a range of benefits for older people, including preventing malnutrition, reducing social isolation and enabling them to be independent and remain in their own home for longer. For more information call the Age UK Advice Line on 0800 678 1602.

Can you help a friend when problems arise?

You can’t help a friend if you retreat when problems arise. To be a good friend, you need to be there for late night talks or tears. For some people, a friend’s hardship is an annoyance. That’s not really friendship. Even if they say they want to be alone, at least make the offer.

Help from Friends: Support your friend. If you have a friend who has a shopping addiction, the best thing you can do for them is to provide support. Financial help. Don’t pay the bills for the shopping addict because this will only facilitate their shopping addiction further. Counseling.

What to do if you have a problem with shopping?

Counseling and rehab can help you uncover and treat the real causes behind your shopping and problem spending. For example, if you generally shop as a means of dealing with stress, then you will want to treat the underlying emotional causes and build new skills to replace the shopping habit.

After all, you don’t understand your friend’s problem as much as they do. Ask your friend before you do anything to help them rectify the situation. See how they feel about it (unless they are in danger or being abused, then you have to tell someone immediately).

You can’t help a friend if you retreat when problems arise. To be a good friend, you need to be there for late night talks or tears. For some people, a friend’s hardship is an annoyance. That’s not really friendship. Even if they say they want to be alone, at least make the offer.