Friday, August 2, 2013

Hypersensitivity and Hypervigilance

It’s Friday! It’s the most exciting day for most people who work and I am right there along with them. This week has been very tiring but I successfully made it through another week at work.

Paranoia is one of the most frustrating things I have been through. I am honestly frustrated when people say I’m hallucinating things that I see. I get frustrated because I see those things and yet nobody seems to understand my frustration. My therapist told me for about twenty minutes yesterday that what I am seeing is not aimed at me. She repeatedly told me that it’s not about me, there are no rumors, etc. My perceptions are off and I’m hypervigilant.

I guess the greatest explanation I’ve come across regarding my paranoia is that others are doing what I see, but I’m just hypersensitive to it and it makes me paranoid. I think that makes the most sense.

I just can’t even explain my frustration when people say I’m hallucinating what I see. To me, it’s reality and I don’t understand how what I see is not actually happening.

How would you like people constantly questioning your reality?

But another part of me understands what they’re saying because I know I’ve had auditory and visual hallucinations.

It’s very confusing.

Fortunately, my medications have worked to the point that I see what’s happening (at least, I think I do), but it doesn’t really make me paranoid. The medications calm me down so I’ve not on overdrive and hyperly hypersensitive (yes, that’s a word).

Despite the paranoia, I move forward each day and that’s all I can ask for.

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