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When hypervigilance hijacks simple movement

I cannot walk anywhere without imagining disaster scenarios and planning escape routes and I am exhausted by my own vigilance.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The nervous system's protective mechanisms can become so activated that they transform neutral activities into exercises in threat assessment.

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