A video to help you understand hypervigilance and how it impacts brain development

Yep this is me, constantly monitoring how people react to what I'm saying/doing due to a childhood where caregivers had fierce tempers keeping me on edge.

yes, makes a lot of sense. trying to keep yourself safe.

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a lot, a lot.

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How can I keep myself from passing this on to my own children? I’m terrified of passing down my psychological traumas 😔

This explains a lot. Thank you ❤️🙏

I don't know what disease this is but I know I have it and how terribly a small tone change affects me and how much I'm constantly struggling for stability and normalcy. I'm okay with boring and nothing too exciting but I cannot handle cold behaviour, tone or words.

WOW!! All this time I thought I was an empath, being able to feel others energy and noticing the slightest change in facial expressions or walking in a room and can feel the mood. But this tweet is spot on with the way I grew up. It was my mom who terrified me. I still have

apart from I think there must be many other sources, I'm hyper vigilant, and didn't come from that type of home.

Yes, it can occur from many things: emotional neglect, childhood instability, bullying, addiction, economic insecurity, emotional enmeshment, parentification (where a child becomes a parent to their parent) etc...