#childhood-economic-instability

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2 days ago

Psychology says people who grew up poor develop a relationship with money that wealthy people mistake for anxiety - but it's actually a form of hypervigilance that kept their family from catastrophe - Silicon Canals

Growing up with financial instability develops hypervigilance around money as an adaptive survival skill rather than anxiety or dysfunction.
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