When trauma wired you for danger, joy feels unfamiliar. You wait for the shoe to drop. You question the peace. That’s not sabotage—it’s a survival pattern.
Survivors often struggle with happiness, feeling unsafe when things are good. This quote gently normalizes that response as part of trauma conditioning—not failure.
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