HYPER VIGILANCE IS CONNECTED TO PREVIOUS EVENTS

Any trauma has the potential of causing hyper vigilance in a person. So what is it? It can be seen as over reacting to small events and worrying there could be an escalation to something more serious. For example, there has been an accident in the family so for awhile every time someone leaves the house there could be a worry it could happen again. Or the myth things happen in 3s! Not really but there is the fear to wonder what is next. If there has been a string of bad luck, waiting for the next thing. Time to stop and really catch all the things that go right. It is connected with anxiety. So subconsciously the fear is there and gets escalated to the surface connecting to a previous event causing anxiety in the present. Learning to identify what events continue to resurface in your life helps to deal with the present moments. For example if there has been a car breakdown or flat tire on a major trip or highway. Almost an accident. What to do! Well go to a car shop, service the vehicle before the trip. Buy some spare parts like fuses and a fan belt- a decent spare tire. Have a container of oil in the trunk. Do the little things that could help in an emergency then go for the trip and enjoy living. Understanding that events in our lives bring back the feelings of the events. Part of who we are! Sometimes the images of the event will play like a movie in our heads. Eventually the movie goes away but can reappear periodically. Fears connected to events in childhood can be analysed as an adult. Remember little events for children can bring bigger weight. As a child it is hard to be rationale about them but as adults we can restory the story about the event- identifying the facts and looking for the strengths we had in coping. To be human means we have been affected by life! Remember we all cope differently and what might be a trauma to one person, may not affect another the same. Your events belong to you. Just because someone thinks- oh that was nothing, listen to what happened to me, does not mean it was not difficult for you. Or well everything is okay now so what are you worrying about? Fears and worries remember can come out of us without even thinking so accept that there can be unwarranted fears in our lives but new coping and strategies to diminish the feelings helps us to live. Have you had some hyper vigilance in your life? Have you identified the events that have affected you?