Am I Hypervigilant? Signs Of Hypervigilance & How To Get Better
From What Your Therapist Thinks
The content explores hypervigilance and its psychological implications, emphasizing how innate human tendencies contribute to anxiety and black-and-white thinking. It features insights from mental health professionals who discuss the benefits of virtual therapy in providing greater access to care for individuals, particularly millennials facing unique contemporary challenges.
Key Takeaways
- Black-and-white thinking: the villain of nuanced healing, blurring truths into stark shades of existential anxiety.
- Virtual therapy: connecting rural minds with urban empathy, breaking privacy barriers without breaking personal space.
- Hypervigilance: 24/7 bodyguard mode, great for bear chases, less so for microwaves at midnight.
- Licensed here, based anywhere: therapists are geographically flexible, but state borders are still virtual gatekeepers.
- From vigilance to hypervigilance: when survival instincts morph into home-staying, mind-paralyzing specters.
Mentioned in This Episode
- Haley Thomas (person)
- Complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD) (concept)
- Chory Counseling (company)
- Felicia Keller Bole (person)
- Social anxiety (concept)
- Felicia (person)
- Black-and-white thinking (concept)
- Agoraphobia (concept)
- co-regulation (concept)
- Christy Plantinga (person)
- Virtual therapy (concept)
- somatic therapy (concept)
- Parts work (concept)
- Google Scholar (product)
- Clippy (product)
- Brainspotting (concept)
- Religious trauma (concept)
- What Your Therapist Thinks (WYTT) (company)
- Eastern Oregon (location)