Adenoids

Adenoids swell in the child's airway, forcing breathing through the mouth, and the pattern is a highly sensitive, intuitive child blocking the nose so as not to "smell" what hurts. Often it arises amid family tension: the child feels they have no place in the family, carries anger and a sense of being rejected, and would rather go silent than argue, magnifying small slights into something huge. The short explanation's "fear of survival" reads here as that threatened sense of belonging in one's first world. Relief is described as the child taking their rightful place in the family's harmony, being helped to voice their feelings, and trusting their own sensitivity rather than shutting it down.

Example from the findings: the blocked nose is read as a sensitive child closing off what wounds, amid feeling unwanted in the family.