Male eating disorders take different forms, and some find that their gym workouts become a gateway to more extreme nutritional restriction and compulsive exercise.

Emotional and biological rebellions against a life of food restriction, deprivation and compulsive exercising can produce either anorectic-style responses or what appears to be its opposite - out-of-control eating.

Some exercise experts argue people get addicted to endorphins, which may explain compulsive exercising, and fondness for really hot food.

Once a compulsive gambler, he kicked the habit and concentrated on organising social events.

I didn't know then that he's a compulsive gambler.

He had in effect researched this through his own early life as a compulsive gambler.

A compulsive gambler in recovery may have a choice.

Like being a compulsive gambler or something along those lines.

Compulsive hoarding behavior has been associated with health risks, impaired functioning, economic burden, and adverse effects on friends and family members.

Any of these disorders can be co-morbid with compulsive hoarding.

Cognitive aspects of compulsive hoarding.

A number, but let's start with the notion that you hooked up with a fantasist and compulsive liar.

I'm worried she's turning into a compulsive liar.

Because he never learns from his mistakes - and because he's a compulsive liar.

Defence lawyers branded her 'a compulsive liar'.

She was a compulsive liar, too.

Unlikely bedfellows, but he felt that 'the artist has a compulsive need to put himself at risk'.

Most of the population simply get on with their lives, and are not enslaved to this compulsive need to record.

His electors may feel an obsessive and compulsive need to boot him out.

She was a compulsive shopper, especially for designer clothes.

A compulsive shopper, he has stopped collecting tableware for the time being.

He has the bad habit of being compulsive shopper, making things that will never be useful.

Even the super wealthy stopped being compulsive shoppers for a while.

A team of university graduates are helping compulsive shoppers cut down on clutter with an anti-hoarding app.

Some argue that compulsive shopping should also be considered.

Compulsive shopping, like all addictions, masks underlying misery.

As debt grows, so the compulsive shopping may become a more secretive act.

Those with associated disorders such as anxiety, depression and poor impulse control are particularly likely to be attempting to treat symptoms of low self-esteem through compulsive shopping.

Without a strong sense of identity, pressures from the spread of materialist values and consumer culture over the recent decades can drive the vulnerable into compulsive shopping.

I didn't have any compulsive urge to write.

Mum says her son's 'illness' means he has a compulsive urge to defy authority.

I feel this compulsive urge to get every tiny detail 'right'.

Suddenly, years of self-loathing and compulsive urges to change myself confront me.

True addiction involves the compulsive use of a substance despite physical, psychological or social harm to the user.

She said guidance should cover compulsive use of devices and be provided by the government not a company that could have a vested interest.

Its chemical structure and pharmacological activity are very similar to psilocin, a compound which isn't associated with compulsive use or physical dependence.