Being mindful of your surroundings

My name is Alva. I have been out of the scene for a while to attend to personal buisness. This is a topic I would like to touch on briefly just to get input. I have always been a stickler to attention to detail. So being mindful to my enviorment, watching everything around me, or what the drpartment of veterans affairs calls paraniod compulsions, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, &in human behavior comes naturalto me. So I have to ask would anyone mind sharing stories of a time when they felt displacement, knew something bad was gonna happen, or had the sudden urge to make changes to avioddisaster because of an inner feeling. I am at a median piont where I have to look at what a professional is saying or my own personal thoughts.

Hey man, welcome back. Situationak awareness, a good thing to have. And to complete your 'attention to detail', 'teamwork is key!' Have any of the VA guys repurposed that Basic chestnut? By that I mean partly that we have a 'military jedi' grouo now, for current and former mil jedi, any branch, any nation, that I invite you to join. Also, if you could doo me a favor and shoot me a PM (my phone won't start new threads for some reason), id be glad to get with you in more detail.

Peace, bro. Mtfbwy

forsakengrounds wrote: My name is Alva. I have been out of the scene for a while to attend to personal buisness. This is a topic I would like to touch on briefly just to get input. I have always been a stickler to attention to detail. So being mindful to my enviorment, watching everything around me, or what the drpartment of veterans affairs calls paraniod compulsions, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, &in human behavior comes naturalto me. So I have to ask would anyone mind sharing stories of a time when they felt displacement, knew something bad was gonna happen, or had the sudden urge to make changes to avioddisaster because of an inner feeling. I am at a median piont where I have to look at what a professional is saying or my own personal thoughts.

Depending on the severity, the cause, and what it causes you to do depends on what this reaction is. PTSD is the result of an extremely traumatic situation (life or death, combat, rape) that causes your brain to hard-wire a fight or flight response to similar situations. This tends to cause most with PTSD to hermit and/or lash out at those around them.

I go through what you are describing. I call it "Combat Ready". I thought mine was PTSD on top of anxiety but I've been going to Mental Health for the last two months for help and my doctor doesn't believe I have PTSD. Everyone has a different base level of anxiety. Mine (and it sounds like yours as well) is higher than average. What it is is an active Flight or Flight instinct. It causes shallow breathing, tensing of the muscles, increased heart rate, increased blood pressure and you end up with headaches and backaches (sometimes upset stomach) because of it all. Once I identified what I was doing, I decided to start avoiding the things that caused me to go into Combat Ready. I ended up basically not leaving the house. It was that point where I decided to go seek help and it honestly has changed my life.

Now, all this being said, there has been times where a sudden heightening in senses or a drive to change what I was doing was so strong that was all I could focus on. One was I was in a motorcycle wreck four years back that totaled my bike and caused me to be unable to run for six months. I watched the truck that was responsible for it from all the way down the road. I knew he was going to do something. By watching him caused me to ride slow enough that when he DID pull in front of me, I was able to drop the bike and avoid running into him. I can still tell you every detail of that day from the weather, to the color of the truck, to every thought that went through my head, to the view from the helmet between ground-sky-ground-sky, the feeling of the backpack I was wearing and the specific pains when I did my injury evaluation.

Sometimes it's hard to differentiate between my basic anxiety and Force-driven awareness but for me there really is a different feeling about it. My anxiety is a nearly baseless and general preparedness that edges on towards and sometimes into full-blown panic. My Force-driven awareness is much more calm and calculating.

If you're interested, I was taught some tools that really helped me with anxiety. I can try to relate them in writing or perhaps find some websites for you. Or if you just need someone to talk to you're more than welcome to PM me or ask here. Being mindful of your environment is always a good thing. But if it is causing you to reach into that fight-or-flight on a regular basis, that's no fun Let me know if there's anything I can do to help!