Maybe it starts with a ping of dread every time you go to press your bank’s app.
Maybe your heart rate starts to rise when you sit down to sort out your bills.
Maybe you’re avoiding checking your credit score because even the idea of it makes your chest tight.
These mental, and sometimes physical, reactions to your financial standing are actually very common.
These topped health, politics, and relationships with friends and co-workers.
“We urge anyone who is struggling with anxiety, regardless of the reason, to seek treatment.”
There are many systemic, societal issues that lead towidespread financial anxiety.
These cannot be ignored in the conversation.
And wage stagnationis a very real thingand has been for decades.
And for many of us, theanxiety is deeply personaltoo.
It is always about other deeper stuff."
None of this is aided by the fact that money is still very much taboo.
In the not-so-distant past, money, politics, and religion were not polite conversation.
You’d still be hard-pressed to find something,anything.
And according to recentresearch from the APA, loneliness presents more of a public health hazard than obesity.
