The chaos you dealt with as a child becomes the ADHD or bipolar you develop as an adult:
Trouble holding attention, dissociating for long period of time, and unstable moods are symptoms.
Why would we have focus, attention, and emotional stability when we're angry and unsafe?
Why would we have focus, attention, and emotional stability when we're angry and unsafe?
If no one ever taught you how to regulate your emotions, why would you not be impulsive?
Why would you not overspend, overeat, or drink to try to soothe your dysregulated body?
Why would you not overspend, overeat, or drink to try to soothe your dysregulated body?
If you grew up having to be the emotional thermometer of the room, noticing every change in mood why would you not become hyper-fixated?
Why would you not develop an incredible ability to focus when you need to?
Why would you not develop an incredible ability to focus when you need to?
If you lived in so much stress growing up, your dopamine systems were depleted as they're being built.
Of course you're constantly seeking stimulation through: scrolling, caffeine, or toxic relationships.
Of course you're constantly seeking stimulation through: scrolling, caffeine, or toxic relationships.
If you were mature for your age and your first "job" was to parent your parents, of course you have burn out.
Why would you not struggle to even get yourself in the shower?
Why would you not struggle to even get yourself in the shower?
If your nervous system became so used to intense highs and lows, why wouldn't everything feel so boring?
How could you just be in quiet without stimulation when it's all your body has learned to crave?
How could you just be in quiet without stimulation when it's all your body has learned to crave?
If people you loved betrayed you or violated you, why wouldn't you push away everyone who gets close?
Trusting people would make no sense.
Trusting people would make no sense.
Your body is wise. It's not what's wrong with you, it's that you adapted in ways no one gave you credit for.
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