Does anyone else ever really obsess over feeling like a financial failure? I [23m] really beat myself up over having grown up with poor spending habits, but I just feel like I was never taught how to manage money. Even though I get by, I don’t feel very financially secure and it makes me feel like such a failure to the point where I will spend hours trying to problem solve and feel the urge to make money right now. What’s really causing this spike is that I’ve just been living so paycheck to paycheck since graduating college and becoming fully financially independent… but I feel like an issue is that sometimes when my OCD gets really bad, I struggle to take care of myself, and that causes poor spending habits like getting fast food all the time. Now I’m not in those deep OCD trenches, but I feel so depressed and like a failure because I dug myself into such a deep hole financially and I don’t know how to get out.

Sorry I guess this is more of a vent post. I’m just unable to sleep at 3am because of this and needed to get it out somewhere in the world. 💜