Shopping is fun ! It can promote social bonding and a new outfit always does wonders for your self esteem. But there is a whole new species being created in those malls.
True shopaholics develop retail habits that put other areas of their lives in peril explains psychologist April Lane Benson, Ph.D., author of “To Buy or Not to Buy”. A great title , I must say so I read on…..
” they’re put on probation at work because there’re caught shopping online, or they’re working two to three jobs to pay off their credit cards” , oops sound familiar? ” Their personal lives are in shambles because of the secrecy and the humiliation”. Weeeeell, not me but I know someone who hides her shopping in the closet and brings them out one by one, ” this old thing? Oh no, I’ve had it for ages”.
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Did you see that programme on daytime TV where a reallly overweight person is matched with a really skinny person and then they swap diets? The sight of those two extremes facing each other was quite confronting. It was interesting to find out how the attractive thin person with a ” to die for figure” was actually causing harm to her joints and other organs because she avoided the carbs in an effort to stay model thin. Continue Reading
A research study by the University of Melbourne found that women smokers were twice as likely to develop depression than non smokers.
This finding was over a ten year period and only 20 women were involved in the study, but it indicates that further research into the relationship between depression and the effects of nicotine are warranted.
The campaign against smoking has been going for a while yet teenagers are still taking up the habit and the already addicted are finding it extremely difficult to beat. Maybe this new finding will be another reason to kick the habit.
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If you really want to know all about a subject, go to an authority. Suppose you want to understand the influence of alcohol. You could try the induction method and taste it. However this could lead to intoxication, addiction and other dangerous outcomes.
The easy way is to consult your professional therapist, who could instruct you on all the positive and negative uses. When you know all the influences of alcohol the easy way, you see clearly that being intoxicated constantly is undesirable.
When one is under the influence, one cannot see one’s own position. Staggering from one bar to the next, one doesn’t think of oneself as inebriated, one thinks oneself as the greatest man alive.
…..Until the next day, suffering from a hangover and realizing that one has lost respect from one’s friends.
