You Tried Everything. It always comes back.
The massages give you two days. The cervical pillow promised alignment. The Amazon massager kneaded the surface. The ibuprofen muted the signal. By the next Monday morning, your shoulders are back up around your ears, your traps are a war zone again, and the relief feels like it never happened.
You are not broken. You are not failing. You are not crazy. The tension you carry is real, structural, and it is not going to release until something finally stops working on the surface and starts working on the structure underneath.