Your Body Keeps Score When Your Mind Won’t: The 7 Silent Alarms Your Nervous System Is Screaming While You ‘Hold It Together’

Let me tell you something you already know — but probably haven’t said out loud:

You’ve been white-knuckling it for years.

Not with drugs. Not with rage. Not with obvious breakdowns.

But with “holding it together.” With productivity. With niceness. With becoming the most competent person in every f*cking room.

And your nervous system? It’s screaming.

But it doesn’t use words. It uses symptoms.

So here’s what I wish someone would’ve told me back when I was crushing sales calls during the day and having panic attacks behind the wheel at night:

Your body knows you’re not safe even when your mind is pretending you are.

“Your most impressive skills aren’t accomplishments…they’re adaptations. Your hyper-competence, your constant vigilance, your ability to power through? Those aren’t personality traits. They’re survival responses.”

Here are 7 silent alarms it might be sounding while you fake fine.