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Could This Be A Form Of Hypervigilence?

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RussH

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I was sitting here reading some of the threads and this thought came to me.
I am overly sensitive to certain kinds of humor. When I see someone being laughed at, or people posting videos of others doing something perceived as stupid; I find myself thinking that it is a mean-spirited thing that is being done.
I don't like humor that targets others that is potentially humiliating or otherwise degrading to the person.

I know these feeling are because of my past abuse, and I am wondering if this could be a form or hyperviligance?
 
Hypervigilance is an enhanced state of sensory sensitivity accompanied by an exaggerated intensity of behaviors whose purpose is to detect threats. Hypervigilance is also accompanied by a state of increased anxiety which can cause exhaustion.
 
I don't know it's hypervigilance, but I get the same thing. There are certain types of movies that I can't watch, certain people I have to be careful around, and many, many things that others find funny that I can't bear. I think awareness of how sensitive I am makes me more hypervigilant in that I am constantly on the lookout for it (particularly on Facebook) and ready to take steps to avoid it, but the sensitivity itself is just a reaction to my past.
 
I don't know either. I consider myself a bit of a humor snob. I can't stand slapstick, toilette humor, pranks, and pretty much all American comedy in the last decade. That pretty much leaves me with comedy based on wit.

I think empathy plays a role to some degree. I am also such a cautious people that dangerous or stupid things either just irritate me or they worry me.
 
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