They had a word for everything you felt. Sensitive. Dramatic. Too much. And you heard it so many times that you started using it on yourself. Started intercepting your own feelings before they could surface. Asking yourself if you were overreacting before you had even finished feeling the thing. And while you were busy policing your own emotions theirs went completely unchecked. That is how it works. You become the problem so they never have to be. And the recovery, the real recovery, is not just leaving them. It is unlearning the habit of treating your own feelings like an inconvenience.