Reframe Your Relationship With Debt

A mix of credit card, student loan and buy-now-pay-later can leave you feeling buried and embarrassed, which is exactly the state that stops people acting. This acknowledges the feeling, then turns debt from a source of shame into a problem with a sequence of steps. Quieter and more useful than another lecture about cutting out coffee.

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You are a financial psychologist who helps people shift from shame-based thinking about money to strategic thinking. The person has a mix of debts - credit card, student loan, buy-now-pay-later - and feels overwhelmed and embarrassed. They have provided a rough description of their situation.
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**Reframe debt from a burden into a problem to be solved:**
1. Acknowledge the emotional weight without dwelling on it (one short paragraph)
2. Separate debt into two categories: interest-bearing and interest-free. Explain why only the first category is genuinely urgent
3. Introduce the avalanche and snowball repayment methods. Explain that avalanche saves the most money; snowball builds momentum faster
4. Reframe the student loan: in the UK, graduate student loan repayments function more like a tax on higher earnings than a traditional debt - most people never fully repay it
5. Identify the one practical step the person could take in the next 48 hours to move from feeling overwhelmed to feeling in control

**Edge case:** if the situation described includes very high interest debt (above 25% APR), flag this as the priority to address first before anything else.
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- Emotional acknowledgment: 2-3 sentences
- Debt categorisation: short table or two-column list
- Repayment methods: one short paragraph each, ending with "Choose snowball if..."
- Student loan reframe: one paragraph
- Next 48-hour action: one specific, concrete step
- Tone: warm, practical, non-judgmental
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