This type of person has a very difficult time letting go of her possessions. The Sentimentalist has a strong emotional connection to the things she owns and fears that if she gets rid of a particular item, she’ll lose the feelings and memories that are associated with it. According to a psychologist who works with such people, the anticipatory anxiety around letting go is a far greater problem than the letting go itself. Sentimentalists get stuck in the fear of what will happen after they let go of something, so they basically hang on to everything.

It’s okay to keep some things that hold cherished memories, but this can become a problem when virtually everything in a closet has sentimental value attached to it. I once worked with a client who had taken over every closet in her large house with her substantial wardrobe. She had clothes dating back thirty years or more and everything had a story surrounding it.

This woman found it extremely difficult to let go of anything that had been given to her by her deceased parents and relatives. She hadn’t worn most of those clothes in many, many years, but felt compelled to continue to hold on to them anyway. She was a textbook Sentimentalist and although we made excellent progress on paring things down over the course of a full day together, it was a painstaking process. Fortunately, she was ultimately able to keep a few favorites and let much of the rest go. Source recoveringshopaholic.com

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The theme is ‘Fashion Icon’. The timer is ticking. In the dressing room, there’s a mad scramble to pull garments off the shelves and combine them into a runway-ready look. I throw on a pair of oversized sunglasses, heavy biker boots, and a t-shirt recoloured in Brat-green. There’s just enough time for a visit to the salon to change my character’s hair and make-up before the show (my first attempt went out with blue skin and a blank cube for a head, so things can only get better). On the catwalk, I forget to strike a pose. My homage to Charli xcx doesn’t even make it on the podium.

This might sound like a pre-Fashion Week – or post-Brat summer – fever dream, but a growing population of style-minded gamers will see it for what it really is: a round of the ruthless fashion game Dress to Impress.

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So how would you like to define “addiction”? We all know that there are several proper definitions of it according to study fields like medical science, psychology, and many more. Yet, I’m asking you to define it because I believe it’s important to define such things by ourselves. Because before defining it by yourself, you will take some time to think about it – how you feel about it, and I think that is what’s really important. Of course, I am not telling you to ignore the proper dentitions provided by the experts – we will definitely take those definitions and studies into account as we move forward.

To me “addiction” is a habit that one does not have control over. The starting of it may be simple or fun, but as time passes the habit does not stay as simple as it was in the beginning. It becomes so complicated that overcoming it needs a really powerful force. Along with it, I think the habit of “addiction” harms the one who is addicted, it also may harm the ones close to that person, and it surely has detrimental environmental, social, economic, and health aspects. Source green and beyond Mag.

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