When you’ve been lied to for years, your mind stops knowing what to trust — not just in others, but in yourself.
The brain, after long exposure to deceit and manipulation, rewires itself for hypervigilance. You start scanning for danger even when you’re safe, replaying conversations, reading between the lines, doubting your own perceptions.
Neuroscience shows that chronic lying and gaslighting from others overstimulate the amygdala (the fear center) and weaken the hippocampus, which processes memory and reality. You begin to question what’s real — because for too long, “real” kept changing.
Psychologically, this is called betrayal trauma — the brain’s confusion when love and harm come from the same source.
But healing is possible.
As you surround yourself with consistency, honesty, and kindness, your nervous system slowly relearns what safety feels like. The fog clears. The anxiety fades. And trust — in yourself first — begins to return.
You’re not broken. Your brain was just trying to protect you.
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