Oh yea, shopping! Isn't it a great feeling to get out to the mall, check out the stores and buy something? Maybe not getting to the mall is your thing at all, maybe you enjoy shopping online. For some there's therapy for the rest of us there's shopping. You don't have to be a shopaholic to benefit form shopping therapy. Sometimes there is that excitement and a sense of victory as you score on the best deal for an item that you have wanted. Sometimes shopping therapy doesn't even have to include actually spending money. For some a day browsing their favorite department store, the mall or hunting online is therapy enough to overcome stress and anxiety and worry. There are two major ways that shopping therapy helps. Going shopping helps to escape the problems, stress and anxiety by bringing your focus onto much more pleasing items that you desire and make you feel better. Actually purchasing that item that you wanted (or something that you want to get for someone else) after you have searched for it, compared prices on then pounced on brings that sense and reality of conquering victory that does overflow into every other part of your life letting you know that you can and will prevail over anything negative in your life. Yes, it's very true and very real, "For some there's therapy, for the rest of us there's shopping".