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How Poverty Trauma Affects Financial Decisions

I grew up poor and now that I have money I'm terrified of spending any of it even on things I need because what if it all disappears.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Early scarcity has encoded survival patterns that persist even when circumstances have fundamentally changed.

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