Your body has one main job: keep you alive and functioning. It doesn’t care if you’re busy, productive, or “fine.” It cares about survival. And just like the brain, the body gets a little…creative. A lot of the aches, tension, numbness, and exhaustion people live with aren’t random. They’re protective patterns — your body adapting to stress, injury, emotional overload, and years of pushing through. Here are 8 unhinged things your body does to “protect” you — whether you asked