Money can mess with your mind

Money does not only serve as a medium of exchange, it also leads to various psychological consequences. Like, money-related terms can make people more "market oriented" and self sufficient than nonmoney-related terms; money also acts on our minds rather like an addictive drug, giving it the power to drive some of us to compulsive gambling, overwork or obsessive spending; human brain processes ideas about money using the same pathways evolved to think about food, so that in our minds these two are synonymous.