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Why Some People Swing Between Financial Extremes

I keep switching between extreme frugality and reckless spending and I cannot find any middle ground that feels sustainable or authentic to who I am.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The absence of a coherent financial identity creates wild oscillations between competing self-concepts.

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