Hypervigilance is the nervous system's adaptation to a history of threat. It scans constantly — body language, tone of voice, exits, changes in atmosphere. It developed for a reason. The problem is that it doesn't turn off when the threat is gone. It keeps running the emergency protocol in ordinary rooms.

Anonymous thoughts about hypervigilance posted here are from people whose bodies are still protecting them from something that already happened. The honest account of living on alert in a world that looks safe to everyone else.