In order to increase business in the name of making life easier, some apps/apps have been made by companies which are called shopping apps. But to be honest, they are marketing apps. Through these apps, we can easily shop or shop from home and avoid the runaway of the market. A research has found that more online shopping can take us to a psychiatry position and this method of making shopping easier can prove fatal to our mental health.
Dr. Pankaj Verma, former psychiatrist of Safdarjung Hospital in Delhi It is said that online shopping addiction may be a risk of Bing Shopping Disorder (BSD). This is a different type of mental health condition, which can show symptoms of diseases like enzyme, depression, restlessness in people. Whenever a person feels lonely or wants to please himself, he resorts to online shopping. A healthy person makes a purchase once or twice, but the person who is in the grip of Bing Shopping Disorder keeps the idea of shopping all the time.
What is Bing Shopping Disorder:
Dr. Pankaj Verma Told that - Buying Shopping Disorder is called Compulsive Buying Disorder (CBD) or Oniomania in medical language. This is a mental state in which a person shopping repeatedly, uncontrollably and excessively, even if that thing is not needed, no money or you have to regret later. It is not just a hobby of shopping, but a type of habit or addiction that can affect the mental, economic and social life of a person.
Symptoms of Bing Shopping Disorder?
Checking shopping website or app repeatedly, buying things without need.
Feeling regrets or guilty after shopping.
Shopping to fix mood or remove stress.
Constant misuse of credit card or credit.
Despite financial troubles, not to stop shopping.
Do not use things and keep it hidden.
How to rescue:
1 Psychotherapy / counseling- Especially Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) changes in thinking and behavior.
2 First of all finish online shopping app from your phone. You will be restless for some time, but gradually you will feel a change in yourself.
3 Phone and computer time. Do not stay with them the whole time. To divert attention from this, pay attention to some other favorite tasks like painting, book reading, gardening or dance.
4 sit with family members, friends, do not let yourself be alone for long.
5 If you also want to do something shopping, then take shopping with the family and taking their opinion about the goods. By doing this you will not spend wasteful, you will buy the goods they need.
6 If you are shopping online, then pay its amount in cash and not by credit card. By doing this, you will know how much money you have spent.