Internal Reference Number: FOI_8661
Date Request Received: 20/05/2025 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 04/07/2025 00:00:00
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Request Summary: Compulsive Buying Disorder (CBD) or Oniomania
Request Category: Media
| Question Number 1: Can you please provide the following information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. This query relates to shopping addiction, which is also known as Compulsive Buying Disorder (CBD) or Oniomania. Could the information please be provided in financial years. For questions 2, 5 and 7, I am not requesting any information that would identify patients For background, I have been advised that: 鈥� GPs or NHS talking therapies would be the first point of call for such patients. 鈥� Generally those diagnosed with the condition would rarely be diagnosed with it on its own as other mental health problems are likely to be present as well. 鈥� The ICD-11 diagnosis criteria may be used and under that, this condition could be listed as 鈥榦bsessive compulsive disorder - other鈥� (which was what gambling used to be noted as before it was added to the diagnosis criteria). 1. How many people have been identified as possibly having the condition (Compulsive Buying Disorder - CBD) during the following periods: a. 2020/21 b. 2021/22 c. 2022/23 d. 2023/24 e. 2024/25 f. 2025-to date | |
| Answer To Question 1: These conditions would generally be referred to and seen in community mental health or NHS Talking Therapies services rather than in a health psychology service. 0 patients identified. | |
| Question Number 2: What is the age and gender of those mentioned in question 1? | |
| Answer To Question 2: N/A | |
| Question Number 3: If someone presented to the NHS with this condition, what support or treatment options are available? | |
| Answer To Question 3: These conditions would generally be referred to and seen in community mental health or NHS Talking Therapies services rather than in a health psychology service. | |
| Question Number 4: How many people have been identified as having Compulsive Buying Disorder (CBD) alongside another mental health diagnosis? E.g OCD or ADHD. | |
| Answer To Question 4: 0 | |
| Question Number 5: What is the age and gender of those mentioned in question 4? | |
| Answer To Question 5: N/A | |
| Question Number 6: How many people have been identified as having a behavioural addiction e.g gambling, porn or gaming, during the following periods: a. 2020/21 b. 2021/22 c. 2022/23 d. 2023/24 e. 2024/25 f. 2025-to date | |
| Answer To Question 6: 0 | |
| Question Number 7: What is the age and gender of those identified in question 6? | |
| Answer To Question 7: See answer to Q5 | |
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