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| All About Shopping |  When you feel impulse to shop try to control it. You might just be suffering from a shopping disorder that could shatter your relationships, destroy your health and land you deeply in debt.
For addicted people shopping provides an activity acceptable to society to change their mood. You can see the advertisements everywhere you look. As with all addictions when the addictive trances wear off, the desire to get another 'fix' becomes very strong.
The researches show that most people go shopping to escape the depression. It is not a positive, it is hurtful way of finding the power. Addicted buyers are adults who haven't grown up, the persons who are looking at short-term aims, not long term benefits.
On the other side, shopping can actually act as a therapeutic activity to cope with life's tensions. Shopping often acts as a catharsis or a mood-lifting phenomenon. Buying items especially like jewellery, crystal glasses, confectionary, soft toys and books helps in mood stabilisation. But if the tendency to shop is an impulse control problem developed to cope with personal problems, depression, etc, the person suffering from it may require professional help.
The most visitors to the refulgent shopping malls which have sprouted almost everywhere in the metros and even in smaller towns are only interested in window-shopping. These are usually people with big eyes, not big bags.The inviting atmosphere in malls can be a pleasurable experience because the glittering environment can act as a mood-uplifting experience.
Many people suffering from shopping addiction will only increase in the future as our society is becoming more materialistic and moving towards Western values. The compulsive shopper may also have various items at home, tucked away still in their original packaging. Some may be continually returning the items or disposing of them in other ways.
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