Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...laugh. Already, there is a Video Baby. Perhaps next: video girlfriends and boyfriends. Imagine, the "rich experience . . . without the mess and inconvenience of the real thing." Video Date, anyone...
...inheritance. Most people would have been overjoyed, but the windfall only intensified her long-held feelings of guilt, isolation and impotence. "I was overwhelmed," says Gary, now 36, who lives in San Francisco. Her problem: the plague of anxieties that seems to afflict a growing number of the very rich...
...last option can prove especially painful when borrowers are late making payments or even ignore debts. "I didn't need the money," says Pillsbury of a $4,000 default. "I felt emotionally ripped off." Partly to avoid personal anguish, younger members of the rich set have established more than 200 foundations in the past 15 years to channel their financial contributions...
More often than not, victims of affluenza find it difficult to seek help. Notes Mark Goulston, a Los Angeles psychiatrist: "Many rich people believe that they don't have the right to have problems. They often feel ashamed of complaining. There is an incredible loneliness at the top." Some efforts are being made to ease their plight. Six years ago, Gary began holding seminars and weekend retreats for the wealthy, where they could discuss the pressures on their lives candidly and confidentially. Such self-help gatherings are now held nationwide. Says one attendee: "It was the very first time...
...very rich, guilt and anxiety can transform privilege and status into a gilded prison. In some circles they call it affluenza...