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Are you crazy or are you wounded? Hypervigilance (Post Tramatic Stress) VS Paranoia This information is from a secular website. I found it about 8 years ago when I was married and being told on a regular basis I was "crazy". Ironically enough...I fit the 'hypervigilant' side almost to a tee and my ex fits the 'paranoid' side to a tee. I have come along way with God in regards to these symtoms and though I agree that there is some 'real' mental illness in this world...I believe that most of the 'parinoid' symtoms are a result of refusing to accept truth and take responsibility. On the hypervigilant side...most if not all, stems from fear. This is something God has been faithful to help me recognize and walk through. This might help someone here. It truly helped me to understand the 'whys' in my life!! God Bless! Paranoia is a form of mental illness; the cause is thought to be internal, eg a minor variation in the balance of brain chemistry is a response to an external event (violence, accident, disaster, violation, intrusion, bullying, etc) and therefore an injury paranoia tends to endure and to not get better of its own accord wears off (gets better), albeit slowly, when the person is out of and away from the situation which was the cause the paranoiac will not admit to feeling paranoid, as they cannot see their paranoia the hypervigilant person is acutely aware of their hypervigilance, and will easily articulate their fear, albeit using the incorrect but popularised word "paranoia" sometimes responds to drug treatment drugs are not viewed favourably by hypervigilant people, except in extreme circumstances, and then only briefly; often drugs have no effect, or can make things worse, sometimes interfering with the body's own healing process the paranoiac often has delusions of grandeur; the delusional aspects of paranoia feature in other forms of mental illness, such as schizophrenia the hypervigilant person often has a diminished sense of self-worth, sometimes dramatically so the paranoiac is convinced of their self-importance the hypervigilant person is often convinced of their worthlessness and will often deny their value to others paranoia is often seen in conjunction with other symptoms of mental illness, but not in conjunction with symptoms of PTSD hypervigilance is seen in conjunction with other symptoms of PTSD, but not in conjunction with symptoms of mental illness the paranoiac is convinced of their plausibility the hypervigilant person is aware of how implausible their experience sounds and often doesn't want to believe it themselves (disbelief and denial) the paranoiac feels persecuted by a person or persons unknown (eg "they're out to get me") the hypervigilant person is hypersensitized but is often aware of the inappropriateness of their heightened sensitivity, and can identify the person responsible for their psychiatric injury sense of persecution heightened sense of vulnerability to victimisation the sense of persecution felt by the paranoiac is a delusion, for usually no-one is out to get them the hypervigilant person's sense of threat is well-founded, for the serial bully is out to get rid of them and has often coerced others into assisting, eg through mobbing; the hypervigilant person often cannot (and refuses to) see that the serial bully is doing everything possible to get rid of them the paranoiac is on constant alert because they know someone is out to get them the hypervigilant person is on alert in case there is danger the paranoiac is certain of their belief and their behaviour and expects others to share that certainty the hypervigilant person cannot bring themselves to believe that the bully cannot and will not see the effect their behaviour is having; they cling naively to the mistaken belief that the bully will recognise their wrongdoing and apologise TOP Differences Between Mental Illness and Psychiatric Injury: Mental illness Psychiatric injury the cause often cannot be identified the cause is easily identifiable and verifiable, but denied by those who are accountable the person may be incoherent or what they say doesn't make sense the person is often articulate but prevented from articulation by being traumatised the person may appear to be obsessed the person is obsessive, especially in relation to identifying the cause of their injury and both dealing with the cause and effecting their recovery the person is oblivious to their behaviour and the effect it has on others the person is in a state of acute self-awareness and aware of their state, but often unable to explain it the depression is a clinical or endogenous depression the depression is reactive; the chemistry is different to endogenous depression there may be a history of depression in the family there is very often no history of depression in the individual or their family the person has usually exhibited mental health problems before often there is no history of mental health problems may respond inappropriately to the needs and concerns of others responds empathically to the needs and concerns of others, despite their own injury displays a certitude about themselves, their circumstances and their actions is often highly sceptical about their condition and circumstances and is in a state of disbelief and bewilderment which they will easily and often articulate ("I can't believe this is happening to me" and "Why me?" may suffer a persecution complex may experience an unusually heightened sense of vulnerability to possible victimisation (ie hypervigilance) suicidal thoughts are the result of despair, dejection and hopelessness suicidal thoughts are often a logical and carefully thought-out solution or conclusion exhibits despair is driven by the anger of injustice often doesn't look forward to each new day looks forward to each new day as an opportunity to fight for justice is often ready to give in or admit defeat refuses to be beaten, refuses to give up. Truth is Black and White Paula Marie |
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