For some people, the problem when you get too depressed is not that you sleep all day, but that you go out and shop all the time. People find comfort in going to stores and spending money on themselves. Although this seems like a healthy way to comfort yourself, this can be very dangerous. Firstly, it can lead to over-cluttering your living space. That would create an unhealthy environment and that can prevent you from getting better. However, the more real threat is that you will find yourself over-extending yourself financially and throwing yourself into debt.

Retail therapy is very understandable. You go to a store, people are nice to you, and in the end you get things. If you use a credit card, you get things and it probably doesn