You left your toxic workplace months ago, but your nervous system still reacts like you're in danger. A simple "Can we talk?" email from your new boss triggers the same panic you felt during months of workplace abuse. You question every decision, replay conversations obsessively, and wonder if you'll ever feel confident at work again.
Your body learned to expect attack. Your mind learned to scan for threats. Your professional confidence was systematically destroyed by people who had power over your paycheck and career future. Now you're free from that environment, but you're not free from its effects.
Workplace trauma is psychological injury that rewires your brain for survival mode. Your nervous system still thinks work environments are dangerous, even when you're objectively safe. You can't just "move on" or "think positive" your way out of trauma responses. Recovery requires systematic approaches that address both the psychological wounds and the practical challenges of rebuilding your career while your brain is still healing.
The recovery strategies in this guide come from trauma therapists who specialize in workplace abuse, career coaches who understand toxic workplace dynamics, and professionals who've successfully rebuilt careers after traumatic work experiences.
Workplace trauma symptoms typically peak within 72 hours of leaving a toxic environment, then begin to naturally decrease if you don't re-traumatize yourself by obsessing over what happened. The worst of the emotional intensity is usually temporary, even though full recovery takes longer.
What Is Workplace Trauma? Understanding the Neurological Impact
Workplace trauma is psychological injury that occurs when you experience systematic abuse, harassment, bullying, or severe stress in work environments. Unlike general work stress, workplace trauma rewires your brain's threat detection system and affects your ability to function professionally long after leaving the toxic situation.
Common workplace trauma symptoms include: panic attacks triggered by work-related emails or meetings, hypervigilance about workplace politics and interactions, difficulty trusting new colleagues or supervisors, imposter syndrome despite proven professional competence, physical symptoms like insomnia, headaches, or digestive issues, and avoidance of career opportunities that might involve conflict.
How long does workplace trauma recovery take? Recovery timelines vary significantly, but workplace trauma symptoms typically peak within 72 hours of leaving a toxic environment, then begin to naturally decrease if you don't re-traumatize yourself by obsessing over what happened. Full recovery can take months to years depending on the severity of abuse, your support system, and whether you receive professional help.
How Toxic Workplaces Rewire Your Brain
Chronic workplace stress creates lasting changes in your brain's threat detection system. Your amygdala—the brain's alarm system—becomes hypervigilant, interpreting normal workplace interactions as potential threats. A simple "Can we talk?" email triggers the same stress response that protected you from actual workplace abuse.
Your prefrontal cortex, responsible for rational decision-making, becomes suppressed under chronic stress. This explains why you might make poor career decisions or struggle with confidence even after leaving toxic environments. Your brain is still operating in survival mode rather than strategic thinking mode.
Sleep disruption from workplace trauma compounds these neurological changes. When you can't sleep because you're replaying workplace conflicts, your brain can't process and file away traumatic memories properly. They remain emotionally charged and easily triggered. Consider consulting with a healthcare provider about sleep support options, as quality sleep is essential for trauma recovery and neurological healing.
Recognizing the Symptoms
Workplace trauma manifests differently than other types of trauma, often masquerading as career problems rather than psychological injury. You might experience hypervigilance about workplace politics, perfectionism driven by fear of criticism, difficulty trusting colleagues or supervisors, imposter syndrome despite proven competence, or physical symptoms like insomnia, headaches, or digestive issues.
Career-specific trauma symptoms include avoiding opportunities that might involve conflict, overworking to prove your worth, difficulty negotiating salary or advocating for yourself, and anxiety about normal workplace feedback or performance reviews.
These symptoms are normal responses to abnormal workplace conditions. Recognition is the first step toward healing. Professional support from trauma-informed therapists often provides the most effective path forward, as workplace trauma requires specialized understanding of how systematic abuse affects professional identity and career functioning.
Before you can rebuild your career, you need to stabilize your nervous system and regain emotional regulation. When your brain is stuck in survival mode, strategic career planning becomes nearly impossible. Like trying to plan a vacation while your house is on fire.
How to Recover From Workplace Trauma: Emergency Stabilization Strategies
The first phase of recovery involves creating immediate safety and stability. Your nervous system needs to learn that the danger has passed before it can begin healing.
Creating Safety at Home
Your home environment needs to become the opposite of your toxic workplace: predictable, calm, and nurturing. Establish consistent daily routines that signal safety to your nervous system. Simple rituals like making the same breakfast, listening to calming music, or spending time in nature help regulate your stress response.
Remove workplace triggers from your personal space. If your toxic job involved constant email monitoring, establish clear boundaries around personal device usage. If open office chaos was traumatic, create quiet, private spaces at home for decompression.
Practice boundary setting in low-stakes personal relationships to rebuild your confidence before applying these skills professionally. Start with saying no to social obligations you don't want, expressing preferences about restaurant choices, or asking for what you need from family members.
Nervous System Regulation Techniques
When your nervous system is stuck in high alert from workplace trauma, you need techniques that address the specific ways workplace stress affects your body and mind.
If you're having a panic attack about work situations, try this breathing technique: breathe in normally through your nose, then take a second smaller breath through your nose to completely fill your lungs, then exhale slowly through your mouth. This calms your nervous system faster than regular deep breathing because it targets the physiological panic response.
Ice on your wrists for 2-3 minutes when you're spiraling about work memories helps interrupt the stress response. This technique is based on the vagal nerve response and can be effective during acute trauma reactions.
Getting your body moving helps process the physical stress that builds up from workplace trauma. Walking outside during lunch breaks, doing gentle stretches at your desk, or basic yoga at home signals to your nervous system that you're not trapped or under attack. Movement helps discharge the physical tension that workplace trauma creates in your body.
Breaking the Threat Detection Cycle
After workplace trauma, your brain becomes like an overprotective security guard—constantly scanning for danger even when you're safe. Your brain learned that work environments are dangerous and now tries to protect you. The problem is, it can't tell the difference between your toxic old boss and your reasonable new manager.
When you notice that familiar workplace panic, ask yourself: "What's actually happening right now versus what I'm afraid might happen?" Most of the time, your fear is about imaginary future problems, not current reality.
Keep a simple notebook of your workplace worries and what actually happened. After a few weeks, you'll see patterns—most of your fears don't come true. This evidence helps retrain your brain to relax.
When something at work triggers that familiar panic, pause before reacting. Take three deep breaths and ask: "Is this feeling about what's happening now, or is my brain remembering something from before?" Often, intense reactions to minor workplace issues are your brain confusing past and present.
When you feel triggered at work, ground yourself in the present moment: Look around and name 5 things you can see, 4 things you can touch, 3 sounds you can hear, 2 scents you can smell, and 1 thing you can taste. This pulls your brain back to current reality instead of traumatic memories.
Rebuilding Professional Confidence After Workplace Trauma
Once you've established basic nervous system stability, you can begin rebuilding the professional confidence and identity that toxic workplaces systematically destroyed. This phase requires patience and strategic approaches rather than forcing yourself to "get over it."
Why Your Confidence Disappeared
Toxic workplaces systematically destroy your confidence by constantly telling you that you're inadequate. Recovery means learning to trust your own judgment about your abilities instead of believing the voices in your head from your terrible former boss.
Career counselors who specialize in workplace trauma recovery notice that trauma survivors need help "identifying their skills and abilities and their interaction with specific workplace needs" because trauma creates a fractured view of yourself. This explains the disconnect between your actual capabilities and how you see yourself professionally.
Something career coaches who work with trauma survivors see repeatedly: workplace trauma creates this fractured view that makes it extremely difficult to identify your own strengths and relevant experience. This explains why talented people settle for roles they're overqualified for after toxic workplace experiences. The trauma convinced them other people can't see their brilliance and capabilities.
Reconstructing Your Professional Worth
Make a list of your actual work accomplishments—projects completed, problems solved, money you saved or generated, and positive feedback from colleagues or clients. These are facts. Compare them to the criticism you received in your toxic workplace. Notice the difference between measurable results and one person's opinion.
Start validating your own work instead of waiting for others to do it. When you handle a project well, acknowledge it internally: "I did good work on that presentation regardless of whether anyone commented." When you learn something new, give yourself credit: "I'm getting better at this skill."
Practice this daily. Your confidence muscle needs regular exercise to get strong again.
Reach out to former colleagues who can provide reality checks about your professional performance. Often, toxic managers isolated you from positive feedback, making you forget that others recognized your competence. These conversations help restore accurate self-assessment.
Strategic Skill Building
Choose specific professional development areas that address gaps you genuinely want to improve, rather than areas where toxic managers criticized you unfairly. Focus on skills that excite you and align with your career goals rather than trying to fix everything you were told was wrong.
Take courses, earn certifications, or attend workshops in areas where you want to grow. The act of learning new skills helps rebuild your sense of professional agency and forward momentum. Success in structured learning environments provides concrete evidence of your capabilities. "Deep Work" by Cal Newport offers evidence-based strategies for developing focused professional skills and managing attention, which becomes particularly important when workplace trauma has disrupted your ability to concentrate and perform complex cognitive tasks.
Practice new skills in low-stakes environments before applying them in high-pressure workplace situations. Volunteer work, side projects, or freelance opportunities let you test your abilities without the performance anxiety that workplace trauma creates.
Rebuilding Professional Relationships
Workplace trauma often makes you hypervigilant about professional relationships, seeing potential threats where none exist. Recovery requires gradually rebuilding trust in professional connections while maintaining appropriate boundaries.
Start with industry networking events or professional associations where interactions are structured and time-limited. These environments provide practice with professional socializing without the intensity of workplace relationships.
Build trust gradually by establishing relationships with one or two colleagues you feel comfortable with first. Practice vulnerability in small doses—trauma recovery professionals recommend this approach because building trust takes time, and overwhelming yourself with too many new professional relationships can trigger your hypervigilance.
Develop mentoring relationships with senior professionals outside your immediate workplace. These connections provide perspective on normal workplace dynamics and help you calibrate what constitutes reasonable professional behavior.
Join professional groups or online communities related to your field. Participating in discussions about industry trends helps you reconnect with your professional passion and expertise while building new relationships gradually.
Toxic Workplace Recovery: Strategic Career Moves and Red Flag Detection
This phase involves making intentional career decisions that support your continued healing while positioning you for professional growth. The key is timing these moves when you're strong enough to handle challenges without re-traumatizing yourself.
Timing Your Moves
Avoid making major career decisions while still in acute trauma recovery. Your judgment may be compromised when you're hypervigilant, risk-averse, or desperate to escape current situations. Focus on stabilizing your mental health first, then make strategic career decisions from a place of strength.
If you must change jobs while still recovering, prioritize psychological safety over advancement opportunities. Sometimes taking a lateral move or even a step back to a healthier environment serves your long-term career better than pushing for promotion in toxic cultures.
Use temporary or contract work to test workplace cultures before committing to permanent positions. This approach gives you time to assess whether organizations truly support employee wellbeing or just talk about it during interviews.
Early Warning System: Spotting Red Flags
When you're recovering from workplace trauma, your ability to recognize toxic patterns early becomes crucial for preventing repeat experiences. Your heightened awareness can actually become an asset if channeled properly.
Keep track of your workplace triggers using what trauma recovery coaches call a "trigger tracker"—noting what situations cause emotional reactions and what coping strategies help you get through them. This awareness helps you distinguish between justified workplace concerns and trauma responses.
First Week Warning Signs: Excessive monitoring of your activities during your first week is a red flag. Unclear job expectations despite multiple requests for clarification. Immediate pressure to work late or skip breaks. Colleagues who seem afraid to speak freely. Managers who interrupt or dismiss your questions during training.
Watch for the "too passionate" feedback trap. When managers describe someone as "too passionate" in performance reviews, trauma recovery professionals know this often refers to emotional dysregulation—trauma survivors have workplace triggers that cause sudden emotional changes that supervisors don't understand.
First Month Red Flags: Inconsistent feedback that contradicts previous instructions during your first month signals problems. Exclusion from meetings or information relevant to your role. Criticism of your previous work experience or training. Pressure to compromise on quality for speed. Witnessing other employees being publicly criticized or humiliated.
Your nervous system may detect toxic patterns before your rational mind recognizes them. Physical symptoms like disturbed sleep, stomach problems, or increased anxiety during your first few weeks may signal environmental problems rather than adjustment difficulties.
Don't dismiss gut feelings as "being too sensitive" because of your trauma history. Your heightened awareness of toxic dynamics is valuable information. The key is distinguishing between trauma responses to normal workplace stress versus accurate detection of genuinely problematic environments.
What Healthy Workplaces Actually Look Like
When you're recovering from workplace trauma, it helps to have concrete examples of what normal, healthy workplace interactions feel like compared to the toxic patterns you're used to.
Healthy feedback: "The client presentation needs more data in the budget section. Can you add those numbers and send me the revised version by Thursday?" Your response: slight concern about the extra work, but no panic or shame.
Toxic pattern memory: "This presentation is completely inadequate. How did you think this was acceptable? You need to completely redo this and figure out why you can't get basic requirements right."
Healthy management: Your manager checks in weekly, asks if you need support, and trusts you to manage your daily tasks. You feel accountable but not suffocated.
Toxic pattern memory: Constant questions about your whereabouts, demands for hourly updates, criticism of your work methods even when results are good.
Professional disagreement: "I think we should approach this project differently. Here's my reasoning..." Followed by actual discussion of ideas. You might disagree but don't feel personally threatened.
Personal attack pattern: Disagreements that quickly become personal, questioning your competence or commitment rather than discussing the actual issue.
When your new boss gives constructive feedback and your heart doesn't race—that's progress. When you can disagree with a colleague without fearing retaliation—that's healing. When you make a small mistake and don't immediately think about being fired—your nervous system is learning to trust again.
Interview Strategy for Trauma Survivors
Develop specific criteria for identifying healthy workplace cultures based on what you learned from toxic experiences. Look for concrete policies around work-life balance, conflict resolution, and professional development rather than vague cultural statements.
Ask detailed questions during interviews about management style, feedback processes, and how the organization handles workplace conflicts. Healthy organizations have clear processes and are comfortable discussing these topics. Toxic cultures often give vague answers or seem defensive about these questions.
Request to speak with potential colleagues or team members during the interview process. Healthy organizations readily connect you with current employees. Toxic environments often limit your access to current staff who might warn you about problems.
Long-Term Workplace Trauma Recovery: Building Anti-Fragile Career Resilience
The final phase involves creating career structures that not only protect you from future trauma but actually make you stronger and more successful. This anti-fragile approach helps you thrive in challenging professional environments.
Financial and Professional Independence
Develop multiple income streams so you're never completely dependent on one employer. Freelance work, consulting, or side businesses provide financial security and reminder that your skills have value beyond your current job.
Maintain professional relationships outside your immediate workplace. Industry connections, professional associations, and alumni networks provide perspective on normal workplace dynamics and opportunities when you need to make changes.
Build professional reputation independent of your current employer. Speaking at conferences, writing industry articles, or contributing to professional organizations creates personal brand recognition that transcends individual job titles.
Maintain financial reserves that provide genuine career choices. Emergency funds reduce the fear-based decision making that often leads to accepting toxic work situations out of desperation.
Emotional Intelligence and Self-Advocacy
Workplace trauma often results from inability to recognize and respond appropriately to toxic dynamics before they escalate. Building emotional intelligence helps you identify problematic situations early and respond strategically.
Learn to read workplace politics and power dynamics without becoming paranoid. Understanding how organizations actually function—rather than how they claim to function—helps you navigate complex environments successfully.
Develop skills for managing difficult conversations and conflicts professionally. Many toxic workplace situations escalate because people lack tools for addressing problems directly before they become traumatic.
Practice self-advocacy skills in low-stakes situations so you can use them confidently when facing workplace challenges. Learning to express needs, set boundaries, and negotiate effectively prevents many toxic dynamics from developing.
Understanding Your Patterns
Self-awareness about your responses to workplace stress helps you make better career decisions and avoid repeating traumatic experiences. Regular self-assessment becomes a career management tool.
Identify your specific triggers for workplace anxiety and develop strategies for managing them proactively. If criticism triggers trauma responses, practice receiving feedback in safe environments until you can respond professionally rather than emotionally.
Notice patterns in the types of workplace conflicts you encounter. If you consistently have problems with certain personality types or management styles, you can screen for these during job searches rather than hoping for different outcomes.
Develop personal early warning systems for workplace stress. Changes in sleep patterns, increased alcohol consumption, or relationship strain often signal workplace problems before you consciously recognize them.
Redefining Success on Your Terms
Career coaches who work with workplace trauma survivors often help clients realize that "the problem is not the type of work they are doing, but rather the audience, or employer, that they are working for." Sometimes the solution is finding the right workplace culture, not changing careers entirely.
Workplace relationships and culture as much as role responsibilities when evaluating opportunities. The people you work with and the environment you're in often matter more than the specific tasks you perform.
Build careers that support your overall life goals rather than consuming them. Workplace trauma often teaches people that no job is worth sacrificing mental health, relationships, or personal wellbeing.
One pattern trauma recovery professionals notice: people who develop an avoidant attachment style from trauma sometimes find this actually works in their favor career-wise. The conclusion that "no one will rescue me and I don't need anyone else" can drive remarkable professional independence and self-reliance.
After workplace trauma, many people experience constant hypervigilance around performing and adding value. There's "a little voice in my head telling me that leadership could decide they don't want me at any moment." This hypervigilance can exhaust you, but recognizing it helps you manage it.
Focus on work that provides meaning and purpose rather than just status or salary. Many trauma survivors discover that prestigious but toxic workplaces are less satisfying than modest but healthy environments where they can do meaningful work.
Create personal definitions of career success that aren't dependent on any single employer's recognition. Focus on skill development, industry impact, and personal satisfaction rather than just promotions or salary increases from your current company.
Workplace Trauma Therapy: Professional Support for Recovery
When to Seek Professional Help
Workplace trauma often benefits from professional intervention, especially if you're experiencing persistent sleep problems, panic attacks, or depression. Trauma-informed therapists understand how workplace abuse affects professional identity and career decision-making.
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) specifically helps process traumatic workplace memories so they lose their emotional charge. Many people find that specific incidents stop triggering intense reactions after EMDR processing.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify and change thought patterns that developed during toxic workplace experiences. You learn to distinguish between rational professional concerns and trauma-based hypervigilance. "The Body Keeps the Score" by Bessel van der Kolk provides foundational understanding of how trauma affects the brain and body, making it essential reading for anyone serious about understanding their recovery process and working effectively with trauma-informed professionals.
Overcoming Self-Blame
Most people blame themselves for their workplace trauma: "I should have been stronger," "Maybe I'm too sensitive," "If I were better at my job, this wouldn't have happened." This self-blame prevents healing and sets you up for future toxic situations.
Workplace abuse happens to competent, strong people. Toxic environments damage anyone exposed to them long enough. You survived a genuinely difficult situation. That demonstrates resilience.
When your inner critic starts blaming you for the trauma, ask yourself: "Would I say this to a friend who went through the same experience?" You'd probably offer compassion and support. Give yourself the same kindness you'd give others.
Most trauma survivors go through a phase of planning elaborate comebacks or fantasizing about their toxic boss getting fired, exposed, or failing spectacularly. This is normal when you're processing anger and regaining a sense of power. The problem is staying stuck in revenge fantasies—they keep you emotionally tied to toxic people and situations. Notice these thoughts, acknowledge them as normal, then redirect your energy toward building your new career rather than destroying your old one.
Protecting Your Energy
You don't have to absorb everyone else's stress or fix everyone's problems. After workplace trauma, many people become overly responsible for others' emotions because they're trying to prevent conflict. This exhausts you and prevents healing.
When colleagues complain about workplace drama, listen briefly but don't absorb their stress. You can care about people without taking on their problems as your own. Practice thinking: "That sounds frustrating for them" instead of "How can I fix this?"
Imagine a protective barrier around your emotions when you're at work. Other people's bad moods, workplace politics, and drama bounce off this barrier instead of penetrating your peace of mind. You can be professional and helpful without letting workplace chaos destabilize your recovery. "Boundaries" by Dr. Henry Cloud provides comprehensive strategies for protecting your emotional energy and learning to say no without guilt, which becomes crucial during workplace trauma recovery when people-pleasing patterns often intensify and healthy limit-setting feels impossible.
Industry-Specific Recovery Approaches
Healthcare: Moral Injury Recovery
Healthcare workers often experience moral injury—psychological damage from being unable to provide the care they know patients need due to systemic constraints. This creates different trauma patterns than interpersonal workplace abuse.
Recovery focuses on reconnecting with your original motivation for healthcare work while accepting systemic limitations you can't control. Volunteer work in low-pressure healthcare settings can help rebuild your sense of purpose without workplace stress.
Develop clear boundaries between patient care responsibilities and administrative dysfunction. You can maintain high standards for patient interaction while letting go of perfectionism about broken systems you can't fix. "Heal Your Nervous System" by Dr. Linnea Passaler provides trauma-informed approaches specifically developed for healthcare workers dealing with moral injury and burnout, with practical nervous system regulation techniques that can be used during high-stress shifts.
People recovering from workplace trauma often compare their healing progress to others, but trauma recovery is highly individual. Some people bounce back in months, others need years, and both timelines are completely normal. Your recovery speed depends on factors like the severity of abuse, your support system, previous trauma history, and current life stressors. Focus on your own progress, not someone else's pace.
Technology: Imposter Syndrome and Overwork Culture
Tech industry trauma often centers around imposter syndrome exacerbated by rapidly changing technologies and cultures that worship overwork. Recovery involves rebuilding authentic confidence in your technical abilities.
Focus on building expertise in areas that genuinely interest you rather than trying to keep up with every new technology. Deep knowledge in specific areas provides more career security than surface-level familiarity with everything.
Practice saying no to projects and commitments that don't align with your goals. Tech cultures often reward people who take on everything, but this leads to burnout and poor performance. Strategic selectivity demonstrates professional maturity. Physical tension from chronic stress often manifests as tight shoulders, neck pain, and headaches, which may require professional medical evaluation if symptoms persist.
Connect with other tech professionals who prioritize work-life balance and sustainable career practices. Everyone in tech doesn't embrace crunch culture—find your tribe of professionals who value both technical excellence and personal wellbeing.
Signs You're Recovering From Workplace Trauma
Recovery from workplace trauma is a gradual process with clear indicators of progress. Here are key signs that your workplace trauma recovery is working:
Emotional Recovery Signs: You can receive constructive feedback without your heart racing or feeling personally attacked. Workplace conflicts don't consume your thoughts for days afterward. You can disagree with colleagues without fearing retaliation or job loss. Making small mistakes doesn't trigger thoughts about being fired immediately. You sleep better without replaying workplace conversations obsessively.
Professional Recovery Indicators: You feel confident advocating for yourself in salary negotiations or project assignments. You can set boundaries at work without excessive guilt or fear. Networking and building professional relationships feels natural again. You trust your professional judgment instead of second-guessing every decision. You apply for opportunities that align with your goals rather than settling for "safe" options.
Physical Recovery Signs: Reduced physical symptoms like headaches, stomach problems, or muscle tension. Improved sleep quality and consistent sleep patterns. Return of normal appetite and energy levels. Decreased reliance on substances like alcohol or caffeine to cope with work stress.
If you're not seeing these improvements after several months, consider working with a trauma-informed therapist who specializes in workplace trauma recovery.
You don't go back to who you were before workplace trauma. You become someone different. Someone who can spot toxic workplace dynamics early. Someone who sets boundaries without apology. Someone who can stay calm during workplace chaos because you've survived worse.
Your heightened awareness of workplace dysfunction is valuable intelligence. Your insistence on healthy workplace relationships is being smart. Your refusal to tolerate toxic behavior is self-preservation born from experience.
The career you build after workplace trauma will be more intentional, more aligned with your values, and more resilient than anything you could have created without this experience.
You survived something that breaks other people. You're healing from psychological wounds that many people never recover from. You're building a career with full knowledge of what healthy workplace relationships look like because you've experienced their opposite.
Start where you are, with what you have, knowing that every day of healing is a day closer to the career and life you actually want. You've already survived the worst of it. Everything else is building something better.
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Know someone still struggling with the aftermath of a toxic workplace? If you have a friend, colleague, or family member who left a bad job but still seems stuck—questioning their professional abilities, having trouble sleeping, or struggling to trust new workplace relationships—this guide could help them understand that their recovery is possible and show them concrete steps forward. Share it with anyone who mentions feeling damaged by past work experiences or who seems afraid to fully engage in their new job because of what happened before.
Disclaimer: This content is for educational and informational purposes only and is not intended to substitute for professional medical, psychological, or career counseling advice. Workplace trauma recovery often benefits from professional support. Always consult with qualified mental health professionals, career counselors, and medical providers regarding your specific situation.
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