Conflict and Shock as Origin

There is a moment your mind may have forgotten — but your body has not. An instant in which something was too much. A sentence spoken in the wrong tone. A look that hit you like a blow. A phone call after which nothing was the same as before. Or one of those creeping conflicts that gnawed their way into you over years, so quietly that you had long since stopped perceiving them as a conflict at all.

Your mind carried on. It is good at that. It kept appointments, completed tasks, smiled when smiling was called for. It built a narrative in which you function. But your body did something different. It stored. It laid a trace. And at some point — weeks later, months later, sometimes decades later — it speaks up.