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How historical trauma creates anxiety in descendants who weren't there

My grandmother survived genocide and never spoke about it but I carry this constant fear that everything I love will be taken away and I don't know how to live differently

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

You're experiencing inherited hypervigilance from ancestral trauma that was never processed or spoken about but somehow lives in your nervous system.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Intergenerational trauma — the legacy you break?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.