If You Have Big Credit Card Debt Are You A Complusive Debtor?
In recent years there has been a growing incidence of consumers carrying hight credit card debt. Many are finding this debt burden difficult to handle, but would rather not examine whether they may be compulsive when it comes to using credit cards. Denial can run deep. Those with heavy debt are reluctant to admit that they may be compulsive and out of control when it comes to managing their money. Facing it is simply too painful.
Probably most people who are finding that substantial credit card debt is proving difficult to manage will not care to dig very deeply into this topic. Such is the nature of denial. We’d prefer simply to ignore any examination of signs that we may be compulsive and out of control around money. It’s too painful to contemplate.
Indeed, most who have dysfunctional and compulsive tendencies when it comes to money will not begin to look closely at their debting behavior until it reaches crisis proportions. Only then, as panic begins to take over, will a degree of willingness to examine one’s relationship to money, personal finances and debt begin to creep...