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As households across the US reset the way they work, save, and spend during the pandemic, people also created long-lasting habits that will seem incomprehensible decades from now — just like the behavior of those who lived through the Great Depression buzzfeednews.com/article/scottl…

“The economy is just nothing but a collection of traumatized people, who are living out what happens when you get traumatized,” Brad Klontz, a financial psychologist and author, told BuzzFeed News.

Now as some of us emerge from the pandemic, we can begin to guess how we might live out that trauma. Having grown used to Postmates or Amazon delivery, we may rarely return to stores — or the office, or the gym.

In other words, our bank accounts might recover from the financial trauma of the pandemic — but our brains never will. buzzfeednews.com/article/scottl…