For years, the exhaustion made no sense. Nothing had happened. The day was fine. And yet coming home felt like putting down something you’d been carrying for hours without realizing it.

I asked “what is wrong with me” more times than I can count, until I finally got an answer that actually fit. Hypervigilance. And then — more importantly — I understood why.

If any of this sounds familiar, I hope this post is the answer to “what is wrong with me” that you’ve been looking for.

Do you often feel like you’re “too much”? Like you feel things very intensely? Have you been told you were too sensitive, that you felt too much and needed to toughen up?

I hope this post helps you understand yourself a little better. And if nothing else, I hope it helps you feel a little less alone in your experience. Because nothing is wrong with you.

If you’ve spent years wondering why you feel the way you do, why certain things set you off in ways that seem out of proportion, or why you sometimes feel completely disconnected from yourself, this post is for you.

You’re not dramatic. You’re not “too sensitive.” And you are definitely not broken.

What you might be dealing with is called complex trauma.

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