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Why Bankruptcy Relief Sometimes Feels Like Losing Yourself

I keep thinking I should feel relieved that the debt is discharged but instead I feel empty like my whole identity was wrapped up in struggling to pay bills and now I do not know who I am.

Zera
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Crisis can become so central to identity that resolution creates an unexpected existential vacuum.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Bankruptcy — the philosophy and the process?”

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