Thoughts on Debt

The cost of everything is going up and up and I think with each rise in the inflation rate, my blood pressure goes up another point.  All this financial stress must be putting a real strain on some very stressed out American’s.  After all, at least half of America is on some type of anti-depressant or mood altering drug, and this was before the current financial crisis.  Although we would like to think that we are immune to all the hub bub that we hear through out the day, let’s face it, this is a very stressful time and we are all feeling it.

It is tough to go to work everyday, knowing at the end of the week when you have filled up your tank and have bought groceries, there won’t be a dime left over for anything extra.  We all are feeling the pressure and those of us with children are really feeling it.  With back to school time fast approaching, the inability to stretch the dollar is amazingly obvious.  Trying to buy those little extras that make back to school time so much fun, have long since past.  Now it is a strictly necessity world, where if you don’t need it, then you just don’t buy it.  It really is that simple.

Ask most counselors what one of the biggest factors is for stress and they will tell you unequivocally it is money.  It causes stress in marriages and causes divorces and it also causes rage, frustration and uncontrollable anger.  This is why cases of divorce and child abuse are more often sighted in poor or middle class families, rich families show less tendency towards there particular family problems.  The main reason is money.  Lack of money and inability to survive attacks at our core instincts and rips us apart.  It allows those more primitive reaction mechanisms to kick in and fight or flight to take over.

Personally, I worry about how the difficult economic times are going to wear on the structure of our families.  I am afraid to see how these problems will effect the nations children.