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When hope becomes a form of psychological manipulation

I have been on the waiting list for subsidized housing for four years and I am starting to think it is just a way to make us feel like help is coming.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Extended waiting for essential needs creates a liminal space where hope itself becomes a source of suffering.

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