#hypervigilance

[theremina]

[disability-kitties]

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[wheelchairbarbie]

[elfieafterdark]

Gideon Nav would absolutely be hypervigilant in any universe I will not be taking questions.

Random bump in the night? Well that merits a full investigation. Someone driving the same way as her behind her? Someone's obviously following her.

Annnd so on.

[bookquotesfrombooks]

“One common (and often overlooked) trauma response is what I called trauma ghosting. This is the body’s recurrent or pervasive sense that danger is just around the corner, or that something terrible is going to happen at any moment.”

Resmaa Menakem

My Grandmother’s Hands

[doctorslippery]

This rug makes me uncomfortable. Extremely.

[heartsmade4more]

Trauma doesn't make people stronger. It damages their nervous system. It hijacks their digestive track. It keeps the person in a constant loop of hypervigilance. To tell someone they are stronger because of trauma is to deny what it has cost them to survive.

[sunlitsorrows]

been puzzling for a while over why so many people i know who identify as empaths have so little compassion and i have been thinking it was more… a mixture of hypervigilance due to stress/trauma and the value my culture places on being empathetic but now i’m wondering if part of it might just be burnout—when everything you see/hear/witness hurts so much, being constantly stuck in that aroused state of fight/flight/freeze/faun/etc, it seems like it eventually sours to the kind of anger that lends itself into someone getting sucked back into black and white emotional thinking even if/when they intellectually know better. They’re tired. They’re in pain. They don’t want to be empathetic anymore. So if they don’t immediately identify with someone due to similar circumstances/outlook/actions they understand and approve of, that person gets classified as a bad person so they don’t have to empathize with them, as a means of self defense/protection.

[adhbabey]

i think like. so much would be solved if we normalized the fact that some people do experience delusions and hallucinations. like yes, its something that those people need help with/need more accommodations for, but we could use being more understanding of people with psychotic symptoms in general.

like, i can tell you that at least one person raving about conspiracy theories is someone who experiences delusions, and if we understood that, we wouldn't have such a hard time getting them back to a more grounded perspective.

i am someone who experiences delusions and I do get incredibly triggered by all the unreality bullshit, the simulation theories, all that unreal bullshit, and it is actively negatively impacting people like me.

we could really use a better understanding of those with these symptoms, because acting like having hallucinations/delusions makes you a killer is a take that makes zero sense. Like, genuinely, you have no idea what you're talking about if that's where you immediately go. I can point out a bunch of shit discussing the darkness of humanity and that logic applies to anyone, regardless of mental illness. Delusions and hallucinations don't mean you'll act on anything, it just means that your brain is creating false images or thoughts, and that can get really fucking confusing.

We could use a little more empathy or compassion towards those with these symptoms, because obviously this shit isn't going away for us, just like other disabled people dealing with their disabilities. We are not idiots or monsters, our brain just gives us random false shit sometimes and it really fucking sucks. Be more understanding or I'll telepathically insert false shit into your brain one day, y'all should see the nightmare that some of us have to deal with.

[the-ghost-bird]

Hypervigilance and Paranoia; I wish I could blink.

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[cherryblossomscrew]

The window of stress tolerance linked with ptsd is a strange one. In situations everyone else might panic you remain calm, yet much smaller stresses that others cope with just well are like hell.

The good thing is that this is smth that can be slowly regained.

The window of tolerance can be trained like a muscle and toned to be more resistant over time.

Hypervigilance is like a protective, loving dog that’s also extremely aggressive and scared that sees threats everywhere and does it’s best to protect you from all those potential threats, see it like gently showing that protector that the world is safer than assumed. You wouldn’t push a scared animal into the cold water and expect them to cope and get better, either.

Hypervigilance needs to be „relaxed“ out of. No demanding, telling oneself that it’s not ok to feel this stressed. Approaching taking on more things, or experiences from a view of very gently stretching that window of tolerance. If you’re suffering thru it it only reinforces your Hypervigilance in its sense of threat.

It has to feel atleast somewhat good to „expand“. A experience can start shaky at first, but there has to be smth enjoyable or atleast grounding about it in it to learn it’s „safe.“

[lacetrauma]

im sorry that i don’t have much to say anymore. im not as creative as I used to be

[edge-oftheworld]

sorry for making your fave songs sad. do you agree?

[abislwise]

an experiment for jews and goyim.

Trying to test a theory here. Please watch the following video (a clip from an X-Files episode) ONCE, then answer the poll question under the cut.

[unwelcome-ozian]

[clatterbane]

Just managed to get the shit startled out of me. I'm half paying attention to videos through headphones again, while reading something--and very suddenly start hearing this sharp rapping that sounds distinctly like it's on the (unlatched) balcony room door maybe five feet away.

The glassed-in second floor balcony with no obvious way onto it from outside this apartment, with my partner snoring away like usual for this time of very early morning.

Yeahno, that was indeed some ridiculous scripting choice, with a highly directional door knock aimed directly into the ear which happens to be facing toward that fucking doorway.

The extra hell of it is, my one-sided hearing loss actually makes it a lot harder to tell where around me sounds are coming from normally. (This is evidently a well-known thing after growing up with that. It can fuck with your auditory processing in several interesting ways.) And I am sure as hell NOT going to be able to pinpoint the direction of any environmental knock anywhere near that well through a pair of on-ear headphones--even if there weren't other sounds currently coming from them.

But yeah, more of that good old hypervigilance in action. 😒 My nervous system is gonna react like it's a totally real unexpected sharp knock where none should be happening.

(And, being the person I am? I automatically start scanning around me for potential makeshift weapons, like some sort of Temu-tier bargain basement Terminator. Because fuck that noise. In this case, a little too literally.)