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How financial trauma creates irrational money behaviors

I keep all my disaster relief money in cash under my mattress because putting it in a bank feels like tempting fate to take it away again.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Past loss creates magical thinking about money storage that prioritizes emotional security over practical financial management.

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