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5. What causes chronic anxiety?

Understanding the patterns behind this experience

AI recognizes patterns.
Understanding comes from lived experience.

"The nervous system remains in a state of heightened prediction when past pain has not been processed."

chronic anxiety develops when emotional wounds remain unaddressed over time. how trauma creates a cycle where your mind attempts responds you from re-experiencing pain by staying constantly alert. This hypervigilance becomes your new normal, even though it's exhausting and isolating.

that chronic anxiety is part of , where unhealed trauma keeps your nervous system in a perpetual state of threat detection. Your body gets stuck in this pattern because it's trying to prevent future pain based on past experiences. that without self-awareness and healing, we default to these conditioned patterns that keep us trapped in suffering.

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