Are you a shopaholic?

Are you able to go into a department store and do not buy anything?

Would you fly to Paris on a lightning trip to go shopping only?

If you went abroad and you were in the airport waiting for the plane, would you go into the airport shops looking for something to buy?

Would you go shopping when there were sales even if you did not need any specific thing to buy?

If you went travelling around an area going from place to place, would the markets the first place you were interested in?

If your answers were YES to any of the above questions the chances are that you are a shopaholic.

A shopaholic is someone addicted to buying anything without control. Many times he does not need it or he has not enough money to buy it. He gets a lot of things together without using more of them. Experts warn that the roots of this addiction are the desire to escape from difficulties such us relationship problems and stress. It seems that the shopaholic is more common among the women adults.

If you are a shopaholic make sure you only buy what you are absolutely convinced you need. Check out you have enough money to get it. Do not get into debt and have a nest egg to buy it another day. If you want a quiet life do not fritter away your money. To live beyond your means leads to a lot of problems.

Are you shopaholic?

Football Addict by Merche

Merche doesn't have an internet connection. So, here is her article:


A FOOTBALL ADDICT

Do you need to be informed about all football results?
Do you spend more than two hours per day reading football news?
Do you listen to sport radio programs?

If you answered "yes" to these questions you are probably a football addict.

The person with this addiction is someone that feels the necessity to know everything about football.He/she is constantly searching for football information in specific newspapers. He/she visits some pages on the Internet where he/she can read the lastest news about football. This person could be part of sport chats and could write articles in a football blog.The negative effects of this addiction are that you get nervous if you are not in permanent contact with football.For instance, when a football match is televised you need to be in front of the television watching the match. During those two hours the most important thing is that game and you will try to postpone other activities. You will feel very excited during the game, suffering very much and shouting words withoutbeing aware of what you are saying. If your team loses you will feel sad and maybe you won't have dinner that night.Some advice to overcome this addiction could be doing different activities like reading books, going to the cinema, listening to music... to be occupied in those moments when you feel the necessity to know something about football.

They're made out of meat (Video)

I found this video version of the story we read in class last week...

http://www.atom.com/funny_videos/made_meat/

If you haven't read it yet, you could listen and read.

WORKAHOLICS

Can be work come to be an addiction? However hard to believe this may be, it seems that it is not only possible, but that it’s already happening. Psychologists have even christened it: “Work Addiction Syndrome”, commonly “workaholism”. We normally associate addiction with pleasure, whatever it may be: drink, cigarettes, chocolate, sex… Nobody in his right mind think of his work as a pleasant thing. That’s why the individuals who are excessively fond of working must be treated as a sick people.

According to experts, there is neither gender specific nor industry specific. Workaholism can affect individuals from every occupation, every position, every country… Even in ours, the nation which has contributed to the international vocabulary with two words: “fiesta” and “siesta”. There is, however, an average type of workaholic, who is the more frequent case. And this is –it couldn’t be other way- a man, middle-aged, and with a position of responsibility. In short, the type of 80’s “yuppie”, like Michael Douglas in “Wall Street”. From what specialists say, this pitiful kind of addiction presents the following symptoms: difficulty in letting go or delegating work; inability to relax or disengage from work when on vacation… It is the kind of person that one sometimes can see on the beach with the portable and the mobile phone.

It seems that there is little hope that things improve in the near future. On the contrary, everything points to them getting worse. On the other hand, there are some professions who are fortunately unlikely to suffer from workaholism, like civil servant or professors. None can imagine civil servant with stress or a professor who suffers from overworking!