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When success feels like suffocation in your body

I cannot breathe properly and it feels like there is a weight on my chest but every medical test comes back normal and I think it started when I got promoted.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Achievement anxiety is creating physical constriction because the body is responding to unconscious fears about visibility and responsibility.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Trauma in the body — somatic approaches?”

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