“I can’t breathe” isn’t always about air.

Sometimes it’s about pressure.

Sometimes it’s about survival.

Sometimes it’s about trauma living in the body.

In this episode, I speak on what it feels like when PTSD shows up physically — tight chest, racing thoughts, shaking nerves, paranoia, and the constant feeling that something bad is about to happen. When your body reacts before your mind can explain it. When fear feels wired into your system.

“I Can’t Breathe” explores:

• PTSD stored in the nervous system

• Panic and paranoia as survival responses

• Environment keeping the mind trapped in alert mode

• Habits used to escape pressure that only tighten it

• Feeling stuck in cycles you’re trying to outrun

This episode is about moving through the same streets, the same corners, telling yourself you’re in control — while slowly breaking down inside. It’s about fear living in the body and trauma refusing to leave.

In the PTSD Facts Outro, we break down:

• Why PTSD can feel like suffocation

• How environment traps the nervous system in survival mode

• Why paranoia and distrust are learned protection, not weakness

If you’ve ever felt like the world and your thoughts were closing in on you — this episode is for you.

You’re not broken.

You’re responding to what you survived.

Original Section Podcast

Hosted by Kariem Ali

Where the streets meet the mind.

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