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When Lucy Rogers* finally opened a letter she had been ignoring for months, informing her that her utilities bill was increasing, it was the final straw. “I remember I just walked into work and burst into tears… I said: ‘I can't physically afford to live anymore.’”
“At that point, I was so tired and so exhausted, and functioning as an adult was so challenging because of my ADHD.”
In debt for most of her adult life, Ms Rogers would enter her flat each day and avoid eye contact with her mailbox, unable to bear the mound of letters demanding she pay her bills.
Some of them were marked red, meaning urgent, and they would typically only get opened when her mother came around and made her do so.
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