I'm hoping i can come down from that heightened state of alert

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today i felt like i was coming down from years of being on alert, i am trying to maintain that feeling but it gives me real hope that maybe one day (hopefully soon) i can be cured,

are you on a high state of alert and if so how do you deal with it?

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It’s like my therapist says, every moment that your brain acknowledges as safe, you come closer to being less hypervigilant. If that’s what you’re asking. Do you mean hypervigilance?

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I know exactly what you mean. For me, it was a combination of getting out of a couple of toxic environments, anti anxiety meds, and like @Nomad said, just letting myself acknowledge that I was safe.

Also, I lived years in all-encompassing fear that my cat was going to die. Then - he died. Not a good moral to this story, but it did make some of the fear go away.

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the heightened state of alert is like the fight or flight response, you either run or stay and fight and the whole body goes into survival mode

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There are items on the PANSS which account for what you describe; excitement, anxiety and tension. Maybe a higher ap dose is needed if you still have those positive symptoms.

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I sway between fight and flight all the time. Majority of the time I am in fight mode - fighting against my illness, fighting to just stay alive, fighting against my thoughts, just fighting…

then when panic or stress overtakes me, I go into flight mode and hide myself away until I regain the will to fight.

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no, its working good just now. i almost feel normal again, hoping it will continue

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i’ve just been on the high alert throughout my whole illness from when it started basically, i think it developed slowly though, idk whether i want to fight or run but my body is telling me something is wrong and is puting up its defences against it. lately though (as in today) i have felt like i am coming down from this hyper vigilant state.

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I wish I was more alert and aware of my surroundings right now, but when I was psychotic and delusional I was . So much that I could probably of heard a feather fall to the floor. All of my senses were heightened for some reason.