Hypervigilance: A recipe for socially acceptable addiction

178 Hypervigilance: A recipe for socially acceptable addiction Hypervigilance is a common stress and trauma response where it feels like you’re always on high alert. Even when you’re exhausted you can’t fall asleep, you have racing thoughts, ruminating, exaggerated startle responses maybe, irritable, emotionally dysregulated, reactive. Because it leads to insomnia and other sleep disorders it can be very detrimental to every system in the body. It’s also one of those things that opens t...