Things that feel like anxiety but are actually patterns learned from CPTSD. If you’ve tried anxiety treatment and it hasn’t fully worked, it might be because what you’re experiencing isn’t generalized anxiety. It’s complex trauma. 1. Constant Hypervigilance Feels like: Generalized anxiety, always waiting for something bad Actually is: Your nervous system scanning for threat because safety was unpredictable growing up 2. Going 0-100 Emotionally Feels like: Emotional dysregulation, “overreacting”

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