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Mental health and debt problems:
Mental health and debt problems:
This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on: 4th March 2016 13:17
This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on: 4th March 2016 13:17
Much has been written about the easy availability of debt at a time of record low interest rates.
The latest data showed that consumer credit was growing at the fastest pace in a decade. The consumer boom of recent years, with memories of the financial crash apparently fading, has been well documented. Not so much has been written or analysed on the impact of debt on people's health. That's what one leading personal finance expert wants to put right. Martin Lewis, the personal finance expert, has announced the launch of a new think tank, the Money and Mental Health Policy Institute. He says he has had his own challenges in the past: "Thankfully while I don't have a clinical condition I've suffered from extreme stress at times, with my own dark days, where I've been unable to get out of bed or cope with the world.....Read more here
The latest data showed that consumer credit was growing at the fastest pace in a decade. The consumer boom of recent years, with memories of the financial crash apparently fading, has been well documented. Not so much has been written or analysed on the impact of debt on people's health. That's what one leading personal finance expert wants to put right. Martin Lewis, the personal finance expert, has announced the launch of a new think tank, the Money and Mental Health Policy Institute. He says he has had his own challenges in the past: "Thankfully while I don't have a clinical condition I've suffered from extreme stress at times, with my own dark days, where I've been unable to get out of bed or cope with the world.....Read more here
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