You leave the house. Change your number. Go no-contact. Put in eighteen months of therapy. And you still flinch at a certain tone of voice. Still feel your stomach drop before you've even registered why. I've sat across from enough survivors to know this isn't a failure of effort. It's a nervous system doing exactly what it was trained to do, long after the training stopped being useful.
This is usually where ketamine-assisted therapy enters the conversation. EMDR, somatic
