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Why frequent market checking increases financial anxiety instead of reducing it

I keep checking my investment portfolio even though I know I should not look at it more than quarterly and each time I do I spiral about whether I will ever be able to afford anything.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Monitoring what we cannot control creates the illusion of influence while breeding actual helplessness.

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