what doesn't kill you makes your amygdala overactive and raises your baseline cortisol levels, often leading to chronic disease

In short, that which doesn't kill me does.

📌

Laughs in autoimmune disorder

*nods in CPTSD*

*sits on my collection of chronic illnesses and laughs maniacally*

*laughs through tears in fibromyalgia*

Good ol ptsd

My amygdala feels seen

As Nietzsche should have said: that which did not kill you, nearly killed you.

Hashimoto's disease person feels this in her soul.