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Why lottery winners feel pressure to spend correctly

I won $15,000 and my first thought was that I could finally afford therapy but then I realized that was probably not what winners are supposed to spend money on.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Cultural expectations about how windfall should be used are overriding personal assessment of actual needs.

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