You carry the pressure to perform, decide, and hold it all together — while your internal alarm system never fully shuts off.
Even when nothing is technically wrong, your body is still bracing.
And that constant state of low-grade survival is quietly corroding everything that matters — your leadership, your focus, your energy, your relationships, your ability to trust your own judgment.
You have tried thinking your way out.
You have tried pushing through.
You have tried talking about it.
None of it has lasted. Here is why.