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When financial overwhelm leads to avoidance

The bank called again about my mortgage and I just stared at the phone until it stopped ringing because I do not know what to say to them anymore.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Institutional pressure around unmanageable debt creates paralytic avoidance that worsens practical problems while temporarily protecting psychological capacity.

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