FOI/2025/26/057

Request:

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 background, I have been advised that:

• GPs or NHS talking therapies would be the first point of call for such patients. 
• 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. 
• The ICD-11 diagnosis criteria may be used and under that, this condition could be listed as ‘obsessive compulsive disorder - other’ (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 

2. What is the age and gender of those mentioned above?

3. If someone presented to the NHS with this condition, what support or treatment options are available? 

4. How many people have been identified as having Compulsive Buying Disorder (CBD) alongside another mental health diagnosis? E.g OCD or ADHD. 

5. What is the age and gender of those mentioned above?

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 

7. What is the age and gender of those identified above?

For questions 2, 5 and 7, I am not requesting any information that would identify patients. 

Response

Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust does not provide service that treat patients for Compulsive Buying Disorder (CBD) or Oniomania. I would like to also confirm that our organisation does not provide NHS talking therapy service. Therefore your FOI request is not applicable to our trust.