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More choice - more stress was the outcome of some research recently highlighted on this website.
Now medical researchers at the University of Greater London’s Psychology & Human Behaviour (UGLPH) faculty have discovered a new syndrome, which they have termed "Dealosis."
"We believe we have uncovered a new syndrome that is similar to paranoia but specifically, and only, related to shopping. The tendencies and symptoms became more acute in the complex field of airfare shopping, where repeated alarming traits were documented including hours of confusion, mild paranoia and in the most extreme cases anxiety attacks,"says lead researcher Professor Abrahim Zloshky.
What next!
I have always wondered has the labelling of all these different illnesses being a positive or negative thing in the context of numbers claiming such afflictions.
Posted by Kevin Kelly at
April 4, 2006 11:45 AM