hypervigilance

• “Psychologically, it was called hypervigilance, a classic symptom of PTSD.”

  Simon & Schuster: Heart of a Patriot

• “He examines how terrorism hypervigilance is threatening civil liberties, the economy, and lives.”

  Boing Boing

• “This constant outer preoccupation and hypervigilance is codependency making in that we are overly preoccupied with the moods of another person and under aware of our own moods.”

  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com

• “Finally a game that doesn’t give me motion sickness and where hypervigilance is an assett.”

  Cheeseburger Gothic » This way ladies, if you would care to follow me.

• “His hypervigilance is a sign that he is feeling anxious, and what he is anxious about is that the mother-child bond has little to do with him.”

  Simon & Schuster: Why is it Always About You?

• “Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can cause "flashbacks" which revive terrifying memories, recurring nightmares, "hypervigilance" -- jumpiness and irritability, feelings of panic and fear, social isolation and depression.”

  Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed

• “But what I think we should be emphasizing here is that this kind of hypervigilance in interrogating various details with a bias toward claiming that there is a conventional view, and that the conventional view is solid, and the skeptics who question it are grasping at straws and are desperate to deny reality -- this is itself a denial of reality ...”

  Elizabeth Edwards: John Wanted To "Fight" 2004 Election Results, Was Overruled

• “PTSD's symptoms, as listed in the DSM-IV (the manual used to categorize psychiatric disorders), include "persistent re-experiencing of the traumatic event," "hypervigilance" and”

  The Clog

• “You need a happy hour — at least one hour, every day — to break the cycle of hypervigilance that keeps stress hormones circulating through your system.”

  USA Today: Middle-aged women care for everyone but themselves

• “In several studies, TM has been shown to buffer fight-or-flight responses, which are thought to be overactive in people with PTSD, as evidenced by their hypervigilance, anxiety and exaggerated startle responses.”

  The Wall Street Journal: A Transcendental Cure for Post-Traumatic Stress

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