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When crisis behaviors become permanent habits

I stockpiled toilet paper during covid and now I stockpile sale items and wonder if I'm becoming permanently anxious about having enough of anything.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Repeated exposure to scarcity is rewiring your relationship with security, making it difficult to distinguish between reasonable preparation and anxiety-driven overconsumption.

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