Compulsive Buying Disorder CBD sufferer. In other words, this part provides the answer to the third question.
Rebecca Bloomwood is the main character who is characterized as a CBD sufferer. Having a hobby to do shopping makes her addicted to that hobby.
According to Rosenberg and Feeder, behavioral addiction is a condition that people have when they cannot control to engage with their wants. It is one of the
psychological problems in the mental illness. The writer said that Rebecca has psychological problem according to her addiction to do shopping. Also her hobby
causes her to get financial problems. CBD is characterized by someone who is addicted to buy something in
order to release his or her desire. However, this kind of habit makes a distress in someone’s mind. Rebecca’s hobby is also known as the reason that causes her into
a distress. According to the book of Behavioral Addiction, CBD has some characteristics, such as Salience, Tolerance, Withdrawal Symptoms, and Conflict.
Rebecca has those characteristic as a CBD. Her characterization as a shopaholic also shows her characteristic as CBD sufferer.
Based on the analysis about the characteristics of Rebecca Bloomwood, Rebecca is considered as a shopaholic, self-justification, and self-seeking. In this
part of the analysis, the writer provides Rebecca’s behavioral addiction that is affected by the social surroundings. Rebecca is surrounded by society that
unconsciously enhances her shopping hobby. The enhancement of the society makes her shopping hobby becomes behavioral addiction that is also called as
CBD. In addition, considering the focus of this analysis, the writer decides to apply Rosenberg and Feder’s theory about behavioral addiction in order to find
out which part of Rebecca’s life that involves the most in Rebecca’s personality. The writer provides the society in Rebecca’s life that enhances one of her
characteristics as a CBD sufferer.
1. Places
Through the explanation of Rebecca as the main character in this novel, the author clearly describes that Rebecca’s flat is the trendiest place in Fullham. In
this case, the writer refers to the effect of the social surrounding around the flat towards the main character’s personality. As stated before, Rebecca lives in a flat
that is well-known as the trendiest flat in Fulham. Living in the society where people force her to get a better life is not easy. In other words, when people are
surrounded by high-class people, they tend to follow the surrounding in order to get the recognition from them, they want to be accepted in that society.
Rebecca really loves to bring some shopping bags from several expensive brands and likes to call herself as a woman who wears something branded. She
thought that people who look at her will pay attention to what she wears. Also she thought that by wearing some branded stuff, she will be recognized as a high-class
person. When she gets a new scarf, she calls herself as a girl in the Denny-George scarf. Then, she calls herself the girl in the white coat when she gets a new
branded coat. This situation drives her shopaholic to become more addictive though her life is already miserable because of her debt.
The recognition as a high-class person by wearing expensive stuff is very important for her life. She thinks that others will see her as a woman who has high
standard of lifestyle. Thus, she never thinks about her future’s need such as a house, saving, and so on. Rebecca experiences it when her childhood friends ask
her to get a better flat though she has lived in a good flat with her flat-mate. “Are you moving?” I say in surprise. Elly lives in the coolest flat in
Camden, with two guys who are in a band and get her into loads of free gigs and stuff. I can’t think why she’d want to move.
“Actually, I’m buying,” she says. “I’m looking around Streatham, Tooting … I just want to get on the first rung of that property ladder.”
“Right,” I say feebly. “Good idea.” “You should do it yourself, you know, Becky,” she says. “You can’t hang
around in a student flat forever. Real life has to begin sometime” She glances at one of her men in suits, and he gives a little laugh. It’s not a
student flat, I think indignantly. And anyway, who defines “real life”? Who says “real life” is property ladders and hideous pearl earrings? “Shit-boring
tedious life,” Kinsella, 2005: 130. Rebecca thinks that she has already had a good life, but it is different from
what other see about her. After she met her old friend, she begins to think about her life. By answering feebly, she looks so jealous of her friend. Then, her
characteristic as a self-justification person influences her to justify her life in reality which is much more different to her old friends who do not know about
fashion at all. The moment of self-talk happens. She begins to blame others and thinks that she is right. Rebecca’s characteristic as a self-seeking person also
makes her not think about others. She feels that her business is her own. No one can change or even touch it.
The writer sees that Rebecca’s reaction to her old friends also reveals her characteristic as a CBD sufferer. She makes her own business become the most
