Help for bad credit: Dealing emotionally

Advice for maintaining relationships, confidence through hard financial times

By Anna Bleker

If a bad credit score keeps you up at night, wrecks your relationships or burns your confidence, you need to take steps to face, accept and change those three unsightly digits -- without losing your cool.

Learn how others have emotionally dealt with bad credit in the stories below.

• Q&A: Avis Cardella writes on shopping addiction
• Q&A with 'Hot (Broke) Messes' author Nancy Trejos
• Q&A with finance guru Jean Chatzky
• 8 times when it's best to ignore your credit score

Main story: Help for bad credit

Published: August 17, 2010

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