Constantly tense, on guard, and exceptionally aware of the emotions of others around you? Hypervigilance could be the reason.
as “a heightened state of arousal, stress or sensitivity to certain sensory stimuli”, it is characterised by intense emotional reactions, anxiety and impulsive patterns of behaviour. In other words, you might feel constantly tense, on guard and exceptionally aware of the thoughts and feelings of others around you.
Hypervigilance is actually part of our innate human response to threat, an evolutionary hangover from the days when we had to be constantly aware of the dangerous environment around us. In the modern day, however, when we rarely find ourselves in anything more than mild danger, it has become more of a hindrance than a help.
“Socially anxious people will over-attend to others’ facial expressions looking for the judgments that they fear,” he explains, “which leads to people misattributing ambiguous signals from others as threatening.”But while it’s a completely normal response, hypervigilance, especially when combined with anxiety, tends to warp our subjective reality, and so can lead to a vicious cycle of paranoia
Unsurprisingly, the best way to navigate hypervigilance is firstly to notice that it’s happening. “Labelling what is happening as hyper-awareness and anxiety rather than reality can be a good start in getting some distance from your fears,” says Vyas- Lee, as it might be easier to interpret our anxious concerns in a non-threatening way if we’re doing so.
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