Two Cents - Do You Have a Money Disorder?

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This video explores how emotions can negatively impact our financial decision-making, leading to what is known as a money disorder. Financial psychologists Brad and Ted Klontz categorize these disorders into three main types:

  • Money Avoidance (1:20-3:08): Involves being uncomfortable with money, leading to destructive habits like financial denial (ignoring bills or account balances) or financial rejection (avoiding financial growth due to guilt or low self-esteem).
  • Money Worship (3:11-4:56): Occurs when people use money as a way to alleviate emotional pain or anxiety. This includes compulsive shopping as a temporary relief, compulsive gambling (driven by the dopamine cycle), or extreme behaviors like workaholism and hoarding.
  • Relational Money Disorders (4:58-6:25): These affect interpersonal relationships and include financial infidelity (deceiving a partner about money), financial enabling/dependency (an unhealthy reliance of one person on another), and financial enmeshment (inappropriately involving children in financial stress).
The video concludes by noting that because these disorders are deeply rooted in trauma and anxiety, they are difficult to fix alone. While tools like budgeting apps can help with organization, the hosts emphasize that professional therapy is the most effective way to address the underlying emotional issues (6:30-7:06).
 

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Western media indoctrinate emotions into everything.
When succeed, their courses sell, they earn.
When all else fails they earn by selling drugs, therapies, more courses.
FOMO is used for every of their marketing tactic.
 

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gotch money den pay bills riao

gotch money den wun worship money riao

gotch money den no insecure wor

den do wat therapy sia :s11:
Got too much money will have inter-personal relationship problems, true story.

Also, the video mentioned that me donating away all of my Toto winnings to charities is a disorder too!
:(
 

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Got too much money will have inter-personal relationship problems, true story.

Also, the video mentioned that me donating away all of my Toto winnings to charities is a disorder too!
:(
correct.. no money hard to have any inter personal problem since nobody huans to be with me.. single is the best. :frown:
 

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This video explores how emotions can negatively impact our financial decision-making, leading to what is known as a money disorder. Financial psychologists Brad and Ted Klontz categorize these disorders into three main types:

  • Money Avoidance (1:20-3:08): Involves being uncomfortable with money, leading to destructive habits like financial denial (ignoring bills or account balances) or financial rejection (avoiding financial growth due to guilt or low self-esteem).
  • Money Worship (3:11-4:56): Occurs when people use money as a way to alleviate emotional pain or anxiety. This includes compulsive shopping as a temporary relief, compulsive gambling (driven by the dopamine cycle), or extreme behaviors like workaholism and hoarding.
  • Relational Money Disorders (4:58-6:25): These affect interpersonal relationships and include financial infidelity (deceiving a partner about money), financial enabling/dependency (an unhealthy reliance of one person on another), and financial enmeshment (inappropriately involving children in financial stress).
The video concludes by noting that because these disorders are deeply rooted in trauma and anxiety, they are difficult to fix alone. While tools like budgeting apps can help with organization, the hosts emphasize that professional therapy is the most effective way to address the underlying emotional issues (6:30-7:06).

The biggest hongbao in the whole wide world contains 2 cents!! Primary school textbook story
 

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TS why you donate your Toto winnings to charity? I have not been following your story.
Summary: char siew children fighting over the Toto winnings money, in fit of anger I gave away all Toto winnings money to charities

got too much money will have relationship problems
 
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