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When family members struggle to balance mental health expenses with shared financial obligations

My brother and I are both dealing with our own therapy costs and medication expenses but we also promised to help support our mom financially, and we keep snapping at each other about who's contributing what when we're both barely managing our own mental health costs.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Competing demands between individual psychological wellness and collective family responsibility are creating resentment between people who share both burdens.

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“Where Are You with Money and mental health?”

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