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When illness feels safer than health

I feel most like myself when I am sick because it gives me permission to rest without guilt or shame.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A nervous system adapted to hypervigilance may only allow rest through the socially acceptable portal of physical illness.

Ideas that help explain it
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“Where Are You with Polyvagal theory in practice?”

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