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When Hypervigilance Disrupts Sleep After Trauma

I keep waking up at 2am in a cold sweat thinking someone is breaking into my house and I check all the locks three times but I still cannot go back to sleep

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The nervous system remains locked in survival mode, unable to distinguish between past danger and present safety.

Ideas that help explain it
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