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How to cope with hypervigilance after a child emergency

My daughter choked on a grape last week and I saved her but now I cannot stop checking on her breathing every night and I am terrified to feed her anything.

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A successful crisis response has created a persistent state of threat detection that now interferes with normal functioning.

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