ThinkingOutLoudBlog.com » affluenza http://thinkingoutloudblog.com Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:43:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Do You Suffer From Affluenza? http://thinkingoutloudblog.com/do-you-suffer-from-affluenza/ http://thinkingoutloudblog.com/do-you-suffer-from-affluenza/#comments Mon, 16 Jun 2008 05:22:19 +0000 Natural http://valeriemorrison.net/blog/?p=221 Af-flu-en-za n. 1. The bloated, sluggish and unfulfilled feeling that results from efforts to keep up with the Joneses. 2. An epidemic of stress, overwork, waste and indebtedness caused by dogged pursuit of the American Dream. 3. An unsustainable addiction to economic growth.

Below is a brief and somewhat comical soap opera-ish video on this disease.

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In a poll released last week (there’s a poll and study for everything, which I find to be a waste of money, but then we’d have no numbers) it showed that because of debt “23 percent of people had severe depression, 51 percent had muscle tension and 27 percent had ulcers or digestive tract problems”. Debt not only affects people financially, but also physically.

I will admit, it’s not easy delaying pleasure when it comes to spending money and buying stuff. I love nice things, I want nice things, I feel I deserve nice things, but I’m not willing to go into debt (any more) to get them. Not wanting to continue making payments on stuff for the rest of my life keeps my Affluenza bug under control. How do you go about keeping your life simple or have you been bitten? Has debt caused you any health (loss of sleep) problems? If so, what do you plan to do about it?

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