Heart Valve Prolapse

Your heart works. Every day, every hour, every breath — it pumps, rhythmically and reliably, without you having to think about it. But in heart valve prolapse, something happens that disturbs this quiet rhythm: a valve that is supposed to seal bulges backward. It does not hold what it should hold. Blood flows in the wrong direction. The heart stumbles, breathing becomes difficult, and sometimes it hurts — not at the surface, but deep in the centre.

Medically this is well described: mitral valve prolapse, connective tissue weakness, sometimes genetically determined, sometimes without a clear cause. But what if the body is not only showing a mechanical problem here? What if this heart, which cannot prevent backflow, is telling a story — a story about the feeling of not being able to hold one's ground in one's own centre?