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. . . she felt that way for much of her life, that she must not rest, become complacent. That the worst thing waited, always, just outside the door.

Abigail Dean, from The Death of Us

Hate the fact that just hearing cars and car doors outside makes us tense up and jump. Hearing people speak in our house esp if we can't hear them makes us terrified they're talking about us and we're being ratted out. Hate the fact that people walking in the house and doors opening and closing makes us so jumpy. Our parents aren't even here, they're on vacation, yet we are still so fucking jumpy and anxious. Every car door and car we hear makes us feel like we have to run and hide stuff. I hate this so fucking much. I hate never feeling fucking safe in this house. It's genuinely so fucking annoying. Like plz just fucking stop perceiving danger when there is none. I wish it was that easy.

#actually traumatized #trauma #childhood trauma #triggers #hypervigilant #npd safe #aspd safe #cluster b safe #personality disorder safe #being traumatized fucking sucks #actually narcissistic #actually antisocial #actually paranoid #not to mention how much of our hallucinations reflect shit like that #the amount of times we've had hallucinations and delusions of our abuser finding us is way too many 💀#system #did system #polyfrag system

Being hyper vigilant does not make you paranoid. Read that again.

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Me: Yay I get to go home for Winter break and be with my fiance! I mean it means I have to live with my parents for three weeks, but that can't be that bad

Me: *steps into the apartment with them for five (5) minutes*

Brain: *hypervigilant*

Brain: *has to keep track of what everyone everywhere in the house is doing at all times*

Me: Oooooh yeaaaaahhhh. I forgot about this...

#c-ptsd #ptsd #did #osdd #dissociative identity disorder #hypervigilance #still worth it #alter: riku #hypervigilant

Hypervigilant

Merriam Webster Dictionary defines hyper-vigilance as, “the state of being highly or abnormally alert to potential danger or threat”. This is not to be confused with paranoia, “mental illness characterized by systematized delusions of persecution or grandeur usually without hallucinations”.

Normally hyper-vigilance is a term used when discussing PTSD or someone in a dangerous field of work;…

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