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A new study has found that for some people, shopping when in depression, can worsen their depression anxiety condition.
Shopping like eating, smoking, alcohol, can be a coping mechanism for depression anxiety. Individuals who go shopping when they are depressed are attempting to find an escape from their depression anxiety through the purchase of material goods.
Buying something new, whether it is an outfit, a car, or electronics, like eating, smoking and alcohol, gives the person with depression a temporary mood lift through the release of hormones.
Having received a positive emotional response from shopping, the individual then turns to it to relieve their depression anxiety, and shopping becomes a very expensive compulsive behavior and addiction.
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A Dutch study by Rik Pieters, a marketing professor at the Tilburg University in the Netherlands, into the connection between materialism and loneliness, found that materialism was associated with an increase in loneliness, and loneliness was associated with an increase in materialism. Study.
Of the 2,600 individuals surveyed, study author Rik Pieters estimates that 1/3 of the respondents used shopping as a drug, a form of self medication and anti-depressant.
The problem with shopping as self medication for depression anxiety is two-fold. After the temporary buzz quickly wears off, the individual is not only left with feelings of guilt and remorse typical of other drug use, the individual is also left with the stress of financial insecurity shopping has created.
Any type of chronic stress, including financial stress, can cause depression anxiety. Which is how the financial stress from compulsive shopping can worsen the individuals’ depression anxiety condition.
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You feel depressed so you go shopping, get a temporary high, then get stressed out because you spent too much money, which makes you depressed, so you go shopping, and the cycle continues.
The person who uses shopping as a depression anxiety drug, can find themselves in a downward spiral of shopping and depression, or as the study author calls it “a loop of loneliness.”
How to Overcome Shopping for Depression
Shopping like any other addiction is a habit. Recognizing that you are using shopping as a depression anxiety coping mechanism is the first step.
Breaking the shopping habit by replacing it with another healthy activity is the best method for overcoming shopping for depression.
Turning to exercise, when you feel the urge to go shopping, not only replaces shopping with a healthy activity, exercise is also scientifically proven to work as well as anti-depressants for many individuals with depression anxiety.
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Not only can exercise help you break the shopping habit, it may also help take care of the underlying cause of your depression anxiety, which is why you may have fallen into the shopping trap in the first place.
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