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Why obsessive budgeting increases money anxiety

I budget obsessively and track every penny but somehow I still feel like money is disappearing and I'm always one step away from disaster.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Hypervigilance creates the illusion of control while actually amplifying the underlying sense of threat and instability.

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