"Money-rexia" is characterized by the belief that one can never be rich enough and the concurrent and irrational fear that one will become destitute, notwithstanding substantial evidence to the contrary. Money-rexics tend to be individuals who have amassed enough wealth to live quite comfortably but who nevertheless fear that there will never be enough money to keep them from some unnamed, vague suffering that is yet to come.

Money-rexics tend to obsess over...