Survival mode will kill you faster than cancer not because it’s louder, but because it’s chronic. Survival mode doesn’t attack all at once. It slowly erodes you. Day by day. Decision by decision. It keeps your nervous system flooded with stress hormones. Your body never rests. Your mind never settles. Your immune system stays compromised. You normalize exhaustion. You normalize anxiety. You normalize running on empty. And because you’re “functioning,” no one calls it dangerous. But biologically?