2020.12.05 Trauma of Poverty in the moment

Anxiety is caused by realizing there is not enough money to pay a bill and the consequences are both real and imagined. Trauma of bills overdue accumulates, and as it accumulates we have heightened fight, flight and freeze - fear - becoming a way of life. I would call this ptsd, with a small, but not too small, "t" for trauma. After all, people have committed suicide with the inability to pay their bills and fear of losing everything dear to them. On a large scale, this happened in the great stock market crash of the 1920s, where people once rich became poor in moments.

A reduction in anxiety by financial intervention may be enough to allow the client to unblock restrictive memories which are interfering with achieving quality of life.