Nidhi Perception

Too Informed to Be Believed.

This is the part nobody talks about.

The therapist who goes home after eight sessions
and cannot explain to the people closest to them
why they are exhausted.

Because when they try

“You chose this work.”
“You should be used to it.”
“You know how to handle this.”

So they stop trying.

They become two people.

The one who shows up.
And the one who is falling apart.

And the cruelest part?

Their knowledge is used as evidence that the second person doesn’t exist.

Their distress is called performance.
Their exhaustion is called weakness.
Their silence is called coping.

It is not coping.

It is isolation dressed up as professionalism.

And it is one of the most common experiences
in this field that nobody names out loud.

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Nidhi

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Too Informed to Be Believed.

There is something particularly painful about being told:
“You know better.”

When you have spent years studying the very thing you are struggling with.

When you can name what is happening inside you.
Explain it. Map it. Teach it to others.

And still in certain moments, you cannot stop it.

That is not a contradiction.
That is the difference between knowledge and regulation.

One lives in the mind.
The other lives in the body.

They are not the same system.
They have never been.

The language you built to understand yourself
should never become the evidence used against you.

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Nidhi

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