Posted by mair on January 3, 2004, at 12:00:24
In reply to Re: Economics of depression...feeling like s**t :-( » jay, posted by Elle2021 on January 2, 2004, at 8:26:17
I've sat down before and cataloged the ways depression has cost me money. It's pretty mind boggling. Beyond the obvious stuff like not being able to work and all the money some of us spend on meds and therapy, there are the additional examples of things I can pretty well tie into my mood states:
1. Always paying higher rates for plane tickets because I can't get it together to do anything early enough for good discounts;
2. Late fees on bills or overdraft fees because sometimes I'm too overwelmed to keep up to date on stuff.
3. Not bothering to cancel out services I don't need anymore until I've paid for them way longer than I needed to.
4. Not getting it together to refinance my house mortgage until rates have gone down for months and then have started to go back up.
5. Being abysmally underpaid but not feeling confident enough to advocate for fairer pay.
6. Staying in an unrewarding low-paying position because i can't quite see my worth to another employer and certainly can't see selling myself to a prospective employer.
7. More than occasional impulse buying of things I don't really need and can't really afford.
I could go on and I'm sure other babblers can add to this list quite nicely.
Mair
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