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Episode 10: Impulse Spending

The ADHD Adults Podcast

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The Importance of Inhibiting Impulsivity

With online retailers offering 24 seven access to buying stuff, I'll just buy it then. And that is the big problem for me is I don't have the ability to inhibit that impulse spending even by five minutes. Because of my history of debt, I never checked my bank balance. This means that often I get to about the 20th of the month and start getting emails saying you've gone over or you're very near your overdraft limit. That's when I start to think shit, I really shouldn't have bought that 200 pounds item, which I'm clearly not going to use. But at the time, because I wasn't checking my overdraft limit, I just thought, do

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