Incorrect Interpretation Of Danger?

[Deleted member 37343]

*When it's actually happening

 

[Ronin]

I tend to see danger just right... for everyone that isn't me. :banghead::cautious:

& Yep. Chaos is comforting. Correction: Chaos that can have order in it, plain chaos everywhere is a mess. I don't like mess, I like putting order to mess.

 

[Deleted member 37343]

I tend to see danger just right... for everyone that isn't me. :banghead::cautious:

& Yep. Chaos is comfo...

Ahh yes you're right. Chaotic chaos makes me shut down, but "orderly chaos" or predictable chaos (such as seizures, car crashes, stuff I already have knowledge on) I am good with.

It's funny though, simple chaotic chaos such as notification spam can sometimes make me shut down depending on how bad it is. It sucks but it's also kind of funny haha.

 

[Ronin]

Chaotic chaos makes me shut down, but "orderly chaos" or predictable chaos (such as seizures, car crashes, stuff I already have knowledge on) I am good with.

I'm in love with the phrasing of this & Food for thought. Thank you, Nimali. Relating. :tup:

 

[F_uckYourselves]

I know that one of the symptoms of PTSD is hyper vigilance or thinking there is a threat almost everywhere. I tend to be that way most of the time EXCEPT when there is an actual threat going on at the moment, usually when it's in front of me.

Oh, wow. I'd never thought about it in exactly those terms, but that's how I am, too. I'm hypersensitive to imagined danger, but when shit hits the fan for real, I'm a boss. I become very calm, precise, efficient, and completely emotionally detached from whatever's happening. I think it's because when something goes seriously, dangerously wrong, our emotional brains can't handle it so they compensate by shutting off completely. The upshot is that this allows us to be weirdly zen in the face of a real crisis.

 

[Gs172003]

Ahh yes you're right. Chaotic chaos makes me shut down, but "orderly chaos" or predictable chaos (such a...

Makes so much sense

 

[Abstract]

Count me in too. I'm glad its not just me! Part of the reason I don't seem to know when things are really dangerous. I don't get the red flags in the right way. To various extents. Normal stuff that is just challenging? Red flags and cannon shots all over the place. Not a hypochondriac though. Tend to not notice my body.

 

[Gs172003]

Count me in too. I'm glad its not just me! Part of the reason I don't seem to know when things are real...

I don't notice mine til I see it if that makes sense. Apparently yesterday I tore up my toe nail. I didnt know until I went to paint them. A couple weeks ago it was a blood blister ( probably caused by a splinter) I again didn't know I had in my finger until I saw it. Etc etc etc.

 

[Deleted member 37343]

I don't notice mine til I see it if that makes sense. Apparently yesterday I tore up my toe nail. I didn...

yes I usually don't pay much attention unless a compulsion causes me to. I'm not self conscious of my body, but the obsessions and compulsion sometimes bring attention to it and for a few days I'll be very certain I have cancer and eventually I think, "Well I guess I'm going to die and no one will know why.."

 

[BuckarooBanzai]

PTSD fears, etc., are a form of rumination about what 'might happen'. Now, when something really happens to someone else (like the seizure incident you mentioned), the survivor stops ruminating, comes out of herself, thereby losing the fear and acting appropriately. It's sort of like when, say, a severely depressed person pops out of depression long enough to help someone in danger. The other person's extreme need pulls us out of our rumination mode and so we temporarily are no longer depressed or anxious.

Now, when something happens to you directly, again, you are no longer ruminating but rather in problem-solving mode. Note here, though, that you might dissociate - specifically go into derealization or depersonalization more - and that could pose danger. You might feel numb and so underestimate the danger at hand.

 

[7Cs]

"survival mode"