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When Trauma Makes You Feel Like You're Pretending to Be Human

I feel like I am performing being a normal person all day long and I am exhausted from pretending that I know how to exist in the world.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Authentic selfhood remains underdeveloped when survival required constant adaptation to others' needs and expectations.

Ideas that help explain it
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