when the shoppers go depressed, the depressed go shopping!
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As the American Psychiatric Association prepares the fifth edition of the DSM—their official guide to what’s making you insane in the membrane—there’s some debate on whether to include compulsive shopping as a disorder, writes Melissa Healy in the Los Angeles Times:
Is [it] a biologically driven disease of the brain, a learned habit run amok, an addiction in its own right or a symptom of the other dysfunctions—most notably depression—that so often accompany it?
sorry, I’m not buying. Depression is the disorder, shopping the symptom.
Or as we like to say round the leftystrat household, it’s not shopping; it’s Retail Therapy<tm>.
Mind you, once this gets released, prepare for some really depressing music in the stores. (moreso than normal)