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Scenario

How humor masks financial anxiety

I lost my job three months ago and I keep posting funny memes about being unemployed but inside I'm terrified and the jokes are starting to feel like lies.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Laughter becomes a performance of resilience when the alternative feels like admitting defeat.

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Nas
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