#trauma-and-hypervigilance

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Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
22 hours ago

There's a type of person who can hear one sentence from a stranger and know exactly what kind of household they grew up in. They're not psychic. They were just raised in a home where reading people accurately was the difference between a calm evening and a terrible one. - Silicon Canals

Trauma survivors' exceptional ability to read emotions and social cues stems from childhood threat detection training, not innate intuition or empathy, resulting in exhausting hypervigilance.
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