I realized people never loved me for me.. It was just the way I showed up for them, the way I held them down & had their back, the way I came thru when everyone else didn’t, the way I was always the stable one, the way my mindset stimulated theirs, the way I looked pass their
Excessive childhood criticism can create cycles of over-thinking. This is a survival mechanism the brain uses to try to ‘think’ our way out of danger— usually through obsessive worst case scenarios.