Cognitive approach to shopping

• Compulsive shopping can be use as self medication.
• People chose to shop as it relieves boredom and gives them a feeling of pleasure it can also relieves stress and anxiety.
• Compulsive shopping can cause more stress, which make people continue to shop in order to relieve this stress.
• If people cannot access help from other for their shopping they will return to shopping to solve their issues.
• 80% of people who compulsively shop have an anxiety disorder and 21-100% have depression.