LISTEN | Toronto man struggled in silence with debt for years:
The Current19:01Canadians are facing a debt crisis
When Sean Picard couldn’t pay back almost $30,000 he owed on his credit card, he didn’t know where to turn for help — and spent years trying to just ignore the problem.
“I was basically just throwing money at interest, where it wasn’t going down. I was … avoiding calls from the bank, trying to just make the problem go away,” said Picard, 41, a retail worker in Toronto.
“You always have that concern in the back of your head … it gets a little daunting trying to push that to one side in order to, I don’t know, make it day-to-day,” he told The Current.
Picard said he got his first credit card as a student, with a…