{"id":96,"date":"2002-06-09T21:47:00","date_gmt":"2002-06-10T03:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/?p=96"},"modified":"2002-06-09T21:47:00","modified_gmt":"2002-06-10T03:47:00","slug":"shopping-and-depression-what-is-the-connection-ab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/2002\/06\/09\/shopping-and-depression-what-is-the-connection-ab","title":{"rendered":"Shopping and Depression What is the connection ab&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Shopping and Depression<\/b><br \/>\n<br \/>What is the connection about depression and shopping?  I found out that shopping gives me something to smile about when I feel the weight of the world on my shoulders.  I thought this thing happened only to women, but I learned during the weekend that it has the same effect on me.  Anyway, due to some problems during the weekend that kinda bummed me out, I vented my frustration and anger on 3 new CDs(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/cg\/amg.dll?p=amg&#038;sql=Adudyylmjxpvb\">Nick Heyward&#8217;s &#8220;I Love You Avenue&#8221;<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/cg\/amg.dll?p=amg&#038;sql=A5mkxu3than1k\">Paul Westerberg&#8217;s &#8220;Eventually&#8221;<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/cg\/amg.dll?p=amg&#038;sql=Aqmf5zff2eh3k\">James Taylor&#8217;s &#8220;Classic Hits Vol. 2&#8221;<\/a>) and a few trade paperbacks (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/192999821X\/qid=1023716698\/sr=2-2\/ref=sr_2_2\/103-7041469-1565432\">Greg Rucka&#8217;s &#8220;Queen &#038; Country&#8221;<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0785108688\/qid=1023716757\/sr=1-4\/ref=sr_1_4\/103-7041469-1565432\">&#8220;Ultimate X-Men Vol.2: Return To Weapon X&#8221;<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0785108076\/qid%3D1023716793\/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F0%5F1\/103-7041469-1565432\">&#8220;Ultimate Marvel Team-Up&#8221;<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1563895196\/qid=1023716815\/sr=1-1\/ref=sr_1_1\/103-7041469-1565432\">&#8220;Preacher Vol.7: Salvation&#8221;<\/a>).  It lifted my spirits up a bit (although my wallet was a lot lighter), but in the end, you really just have to take the bull by the horns, confront whatever&#8217;s bothering you and come up with a solution.  To make a long story short, everything worked itself out and I got a lot of new stuff in the process <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/images\/emoticons\/chat_face_tongue.gif\">.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shopping and Depression What is the connection about depression and shopping? I found out that shopping gives me something to smile about when I feel the weight of the world on my shoulders. I thought this thing happened only to women, but I learned during the weekend that it has the same effect on me. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}