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She\Her

[ha L'aura potentissima @Nicknameless_]

la mia vita è un pendolo tra "sto troppo bene da sola" e "boh però forse mi piacerebbe provare l'amore" chissà chi vincerà

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

You’re 35. Someone raises their voice and suddenly you’re 7 years old again, sitting at the kitchen table, trying to disappear. Your brain is literally reverting to the age you were when the original wound happened.

Neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux at NYU found that your brain has a fear shortcut. Sensory information hits your amygdala (the brain’s alarm system) before it ever reaches the part that thinks logically. The alarm fires in about 12 milliseconds. Rational thought takes over 250. In someone carrying old trauma, the alarm wins every time. Your body reacts before your mind even knows what happened.

Bessel van der Kolk’s team put trauma survivors in brain scanners and watched what happens during a flashback. Three things go wrong at once. The amygdala floods the body with stress hormones, preparing you to fight or run. The prefrontal cortex, the part of your brain that says “calm down, you’re safe, this is 2026,” goes quiet. And Broca’s area, the region that lets you put thoughts into words, shuts off entirely. Van der Kolk compared it to having a stroke. Trauma survivors sitting frozen and silent in emergency rooms aren’t choosing not to speak. The brain region for language has gone offline.

The missing piece is the hippocampus. It’s the part of your brain that tags memories with a time and place, filing them as “this happened years ago.” Chronic stress hormones physically shrink it. MRI scans of PTSD patients consistently show this. When your hippocampus can’t do its job, your brain stops distinguishing a 20-year-old memory from something happening right now. That’s why a slamming door in 2026 can put you right back in a room from 1998. Your brain genuinely cannot tell the difference.

The CDC ran the largest study on childhood trauma ever done. 64% of American adults report at least one adverse childhood experience. Those who had four or more were 12 times more likely to attempt suicide, develop depression, or struggle with addiction. The annual cost: $14.1 trillion.

The good news: this isn’t always permanent. A study of PTSD patients found that after treatment, the hippocampus grew back by 4.6%. The part of the brain that files memories as “the past” can be rebuilt.

[Hadi @lolnvmtho]

I’m forever a ‘you could’ve just told me’ kind of person. I can handle the truth. I can’t handle being lied to.

[Artemio M @ArtemiosMi]

Io non comprendo come un figlio di immigrati italiani che vive a Sydney da 40 anni può votare da casa sua, mentre uno di Bari che studia a Milano no.

[ℳ. @softglxm]

L'amore è destinato a tutti meno che a me, io sarò costretta a guardare gli altri per il resto della mia vita. E no, non ditemi "da soli si sta bene" perché io sono 27 anni che sono sola e l'amore l'ho sempre solo sfiorato in modo effimero o mai ricambiato. Mi sono stancata

[Lady Lawya @Parkerlawyer]

I texted my husband at 10am that I received bad news about my father’s health and within 15 mins he was at my office, had already called my assistant to clear my calendar (before I could even walk to her office) and put me in the car to go to the hospital. He sat with me for 8 hours in an uncomfortable chair, he lost his entire work day including a court appearance, made sure my mom and I stayed hydrated (important), asked questions to doctors that I couldn’t think of, and never once complained.

I am sure there are millions of partners who have done the same in a loved one’s time of need but in my line of work it is easy to forget what love truly looks like.

If they want to they will.

[feyisayo 💸 @feyiszn]

I prefer dating someone who's healthy clingy. Constant talking, planning future dates/trips, and asking "When can I see you?" Yeah, I like that very much.

[feelings ღ @eternaltxts]

The worst part about being lied to isn’t the lie , it’s wondering what else was never true.

[yanna. @slimyan]

I'm at the age where I try to check myself & acknowledge my own bs as much as I can. that’s all I can control.

[sad @lonesfeels]

you cannot repeatedly disappoint somebody & expect their energy to still crave you

[loid @Iveslueur]

i want romance soooo bad im tired of settling for the bare minimum. I want intimacy. I want the 3am love making. I want the random looks of admiration. I want "I miss you" text. I want date nights and flowers. I want reassurance. I want priority. I want love that's pure and true.

[🦢 @damnidc__]

just saw a TikTok where the lady was saying that, "sometimes the most thoughtful thing a man will ever do for you is make sure you don't spend the rest of your life with him" felt that to the core.

[𝒶rα˚˖𓍢ִ໋ @yslmammi]

Your trauma is not an excuse to be manipulative, nonchalant, or narcissistic towards good people.

[chey @iwishurosesxo]

how it feels when someone treats you like a soul to be understood instead of a problem to be solved

[Tina ☆ @KerstinaRenee_]

Two of my favorite things in the entire world are being considered and not having to ask.

[jynx @jynxbby]

men will ask you zero questions about yourself and then say they never met anybody like you