Hypervigilance is a state of increased alertness. If you’re in a state of hypervigilance, you’re extremely sensitive to your surroundings. It can make you feel like you’re alert to any hidden dangers, whether from other people or the environment. Often, though, these dangers are not real.
Hypervigilance can be a symptom of mental health conditions, including:
post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
anxiety disorders
schizophrenia
Hypervigilance can have a negative effect on your life. It can affect how you interact with and view others, or it may encourage paranoia.
You may overreact if you hear a loud bang or if you misunderstand a coworker’s statement as rude. These reactions may be violent or hostile in a perceived attempt to defend yourself.
You may fear judgment from others, or you may judge others extremely harshly. This may develop into black-and-white thinking in which you find things either absolutely right or absolutely wrong. You can also become emotionally withdrawn. You may experience mood swings or outbursts of emotion.
Mental symptoms of hypervigilance can include paranoia.
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If you have severe social anxiety, you may rely on day dreaming or non-participation in events. These symptoms can result in social isolation and damaged relationships.
If you have social anxiety, you may be hypervigilant in the presence of others, especially new people or people you don’t trust.
PTSD can cause you to be tense. You may constantly scan the area for perceived threats.
Common triggers
hearing loud noises (especially if they’re sudden or emotionally charged), which can include yelling, arguments, and sudden bangs
anticipating pain, fear, or judgment
feeling emotional distress
being reminded of past traumas
being around random, chaotic behaviors of others
CBT identify what causes your hypervigilance and how to deal with it.
Exposure therapy can be helpful if you have PTSD.
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR): EMDR combines exposure therapy with guided eye movements. This can ultimately change how you react to traumatic memories.
Coping:
Search for objective evidence in a situation before reacting.
Pause before reacting.
Acknowledge fears or strong emotions, but don’t give in to them.
Set boundaries with others and yourself.
https://www.healthline.com/health/hypervigilance
Hyperarousal is a primary symptom of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). It occurs when a person’s body suddenly kicks into high alert as a result of thinking about their trauma.
Hyperarousal symptoms are typically accompanied by:
flashbacks (vivid memories of a traumatic event)
a “numbed” emotional state
attempts to avoid triggers that might cause thoughts about a traumatic event
The most common events resulting in the development of PTSD include:
physical abuse during childhood
physical assault
CBT helps patients recognize thinking patterns that cause their PTSD symptoms, such as negative self-image and thinking a traumatic event will occur again. It’s often used along with exposure therapy
https://www.healthline.com/health/mental-health/hyperarousal
People experiencing hypervigilance are unusually sensitive to the environment and people around them.
It is not a condition in itself, but a way of behaving that may be caused by trauma or an underlying mental health problem.
When someone experiences hypervigilance, their subconscious is constantly anticipating danger. As a result, their senses are on high alert, ready to spot and respond to any danger.
This super alertness makes people with hypervigilance feel and act as though there is always a threat around the corner. Normally, they are not responding to a real threat. Rather, their brain is overanalyzing, and overreacting to, input from their senses.
In paranoia, people hold specific, untrue beliefs that certain people or things are out to get them.
People experiencing hypervigilance do not have any fixed beliefs about a specific thing happening, however. They are not delusional but just on high alert.
In paranoia, people have a delusional belief that someone or something is trying to harm them now, in the present. In hypervigilance, people are on guard in anticipation of something bad happening in the future.
In paranoia, people will not be aware that they are suffering from an illness and may believe that their delusions are true. In hypervigilance, people often have an awareness that there is no objective reason to be on edge, but find it hard to relax nonetheless.
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/319289#symptoms-of-hypervigilance
Sustained states of hypervigilance, lasting for a decade or more, lead to higher sensitivity to disturbances in their local environment, and an inability to tolerate very small or large groups. After resolution of the situation demanding their attention, people are exhausted and are often unable to function in normal society.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervigilance
Trigger warnings are designed to help survivors avoid reminders of their trauma, thereby preventing emotional discomfort. Yet avoidance reinforces PTSD. Conversely, systematic exposure to triggers and the memories they provoke is the most effective means of overcoming the disorder.
Metin Basoglu, a psychiatrist specializing in trauma research, said that "instead of encouraging a culture of avoidance, [the media] should be encouraging exposure. Most trauma victims avoid situations that remind them of the experience. Avoidance means helplessness and helplessness means depression. That's not good.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trauma_trigger
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Condemn the deed not the doer
Valis, Philip K. Dick
What we have here is a Zen paradox. That which makes no sense makes the most sense. I am being caught in a sin of the highest magnitude: using Aristotelian two-value logic: "A thing is either A or not-A." (The Law of the Excluded Middle.) Everybody knows that Aristotelian two-value logic is f*cked.
Valis, Philip K. Dick
Condemn the deed not the doer.
Valis, Philip K. Dick
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