Vanessa Dean 6/21/26 Vanessa Dean 6/21/26

Why Women With ADHD Are Wired for Compulsive Spending

What I’m here to talk about, though, is bigger than impulsive spending, but compulsive spending. Where shopping is more like an addictive behavior. Research shows that it is driven by specific emotional and neurological triggers.

Compulsive shopping is the inability to control the urge to shop, even when it causes harm: financial, emotional, or relational.

Vanessa Dean 4/21/26 Vanessa Dean 4/21/26

My Issues With The 3-6 Month Emergency Fund Heuristic

We don’t know that the 3-6 month emergency fund is good enough. Its a heuristic created by financial advisors, for the average time of being out of employment. However, it doesn’t account for the ADHD Tax, which can drive an ADHDers finances.