{"id":585,"date":"2009-05-29T15:21:05","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T19:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/?p=585"},"modified":"2023-11-23T23:23:11","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T04:23:11","slug":"retail-therapy-for-emotional-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/retail-therapy-for-emotional-boost\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Retail Therapy’ for Emotional Boost?"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to a HealthDay report published this week by IndyStar<\/a>, a poll of 700 women “found that 79 percent said they’d go on a shopping spree to give themselves an emotional boost.”<\/p>\n

The survey author, Karen Pine, refers to it as “compensatory consumption<\/em>,” and says, “it serves as a way of regulating intense emotions.”<\/p>\n

The poll, conducted by the University of Hertfordshire (England), found “about 40 percent listed “depression” and 60 percent listed “feeling a bit low” as reasons to go shopping and overspend.\u00a0 Many of the women said shopping has the power to make them feel better.”<\/p>\n

Yeah, until the bill arrives and “buyer’s remorse<\/em>” sets in.<\/p>\n

What might begin as “retail therapy<\/em>” can become problematic if\/when we don’t take care of our emotional and financial well being.\u00a0 The best emotional boosts are the ones that are sustainable and nourish our core.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to a HealthDay report published this week by IndyStar, a poll of 700 women “found that 79 percent said they’d go on a shopping spree to give themselves an emotional boost.” The survey author, Karen Pine, refers to it as “compensatory consumption,” and says, “it serves as a way of regulating intense emotions.” The\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[72,20,112,110],"class_list":["post-585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-worldwide","tag-coping","tag-economics","tag-emotional-boost","tag-retail-therapy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1370,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions\/1370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}