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How Childhood Hypervigilance Outlasts Its Cause

I realize I have been holding my breath around my angry father for forty years and now that he is dead I still cannot exhale.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The nervous system can remain braced for threats long after the original danger has passed, affecting all subsequent relationships.

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