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Nervous System In Shock

For a long time, I thought something was wrong with me.

I was anxious, an extreme over thinker, constant tension in my body, physically and mentally exhausted and forcing my way through life.

I ended up on an anti-depressant and had no idea I needed it.

This is not an anti-medication post either. I wish more men would consider the potential for this being a tool to use, than a weakness.

Medication helps a lot of people and sometimes it's necessary. For me personally it helped me breathe again until I could on my own.

Look back at my own life I realized something deeper was happening underneath everything.

My nervous system had been in shock for years.

Not from one single event but from life.

Living in survival mode from stress that never left my body, and I had no idea how to regulate it.

I didn't know that was even a thing.

I was constantly adapting to change, suppressing emotions just trying to be what everyone else needed me to be, constantly disconnecting from myself.

I lived this way so long that I thought it was normal.

You don't realize your body is bracing anymore.

You don't realize your mind is constantly scanning never fully resting.

Exhaustion had become my baseline operating system.

I pushed until I was ready to check out.

For me, medication helped quiet the noise, but it also made me realize I had never actually addressed the root.

I had learned how to cope.

Not how to heal.

The deeper healing started when I began understanding the nervous system.

Understanding how the body stores stress.

How unresolved experiences stay active internally.

How emotional shutdown can look like being strong.

I started realizing I wasn't crazy and I wasn't weak.

My system had simply adapted to years of pressure.

And slowly, through awareness, boundaries, rest, emotional honesty, faith and reconnecting to myself....my body began learning safety again from the inside out.

That changed everything.

A lot of people walking around today don't hate themselves.

They're just exhausted from carrying survival mode for too long.

Nervous system shock is real.

And I know I'm not the only one that has lived like this.

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