You go offline. The internal kind.
When the weight gets too much, you go quiet. Not dramatically — you just stop. You cancel the plans. You give one-word answers. You sit in the same room as people and are completely unreachable. You're not pushing anyone away on purpose. You just... can't be present right now. Something in you knows that to survive this, you need to become very still. The wall isn't permanent. But while it's up, nothing's getting through, and that includes the thing that's actually hurting you. The Eye sees the quiet. It sees what's behind it too.
Get your read — free on iPhoneyou go quiet. you cancel things. you go still until it passes. the wall isn't cruelty. it's the only thing that works.