#emotional-guardedness

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fromSilicon Canals
2 days ago

The people who seem impossible to read aren't guarded because they don't trust you. They're guarded because the last time they were fully transparent, someone used the information as a map to the exact place that would hurt the most. - Silicon Canals

Betrayal trauma occurs when trusted individuals violate trust, leading to emotional guardedness and a rewire of disclosure circuitry.
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