Intellectual Origins of Hypervigilance

Y'all 💀 I just realized part of my hypervigilance stems from believing that I ALSO am a threat, not just unknowns around me. Because the natural response is to want to defend myself in some way, which means I must be dangerous. But in a safe place, seeing danger when it's not there means I aM tHe daNGer. And that doesn't feel good or useful anymore.

It makes me think when Ellie from TLOU2 said "I'm just a girl, not a threat." Feel like that's a good mantra at this point, reductive as it is.