If quiet feels wrong, you might have gotten used to living inside an alarm.

When things have been tense for a long time, your body learns to stay ready. You listen to how a door closes, you read faces before anybody speaks, you keep a plan running in the background. It works, it is exhausting, and it does not switch off just because the situation did. Calm can feel like the pause before something happens.

None of that is your fault, and none of it undoes in a week. Small doses help: ten minutes somewhere safe, doing one ordinary thing, noticing that nothing goes wrong. If the alarm has been on for years, that is worth telling someone you trust.