Trauma Related Symptoms Hypervigilance and Exaggerated Startle Response

📢SUBSCRIBE and click the BELL to get notified when new videos are uploaded.
💻 Online course based on this video can be found at

#selfhelp #cognitivebehavioraltherapy #counseling #counselling

NOTE: ALL VIDEOS are for educational purposes only and are NOT a replacement for medical advice or counseling from a licensed professional.

Video by Dr. Dawn Elise Snipes on integrative behavioral health approaches including counseling techniques and skills for improving mental health and reducing mental illness.

[DocSnipes]

👌More videos can be found on this topic at
👍Online Courses for Continuing Education (CEU, OPD, CPD) and Substance Abuse Counselor Certification

[t.h.]

I have been conditioned for this. I have gone through a lot for a lifetime. It doesn't take much to make me jump and scream.

[ambrosehunter]

God grant thee many years Doc Snipes ❤

[judithwallace]

Thank you for posting excellent content.

My thoughts and prayers are with you and your neighbours. It is still early days since the house fire and lose of life.

I hope you follow up with the fire department when you feel ready. Advocating for animal rights makes the world a better place and in the long run will influence fire fighting practices.

In loving memory of Cassie. Beloved friend and companion.

[JoaquinRomolor-hdlc]

Thank your you for explaining it better.Doc.

[valenciawalker]

So, true! God Bless . It influences how one behaves perceives in all areas and interacts.🙏🏽❤️✝️🙏🏽

[RoadRunnergarage]

I'm working on trying not to feel this way anymore...

[cshortridge]

I learned to tamp that startle response down. It was there but I tamped it down because my father was training me to respond unemotionally. So I have a strange inward initially jumpy reaction but Outwardly I seem very calm. It actually served me well in my nursing work but I'm not sure it was good for ME. Lol.

[amdeko]

❤❤❤❤ i will keep clapping for others until it's my turn 🎉🎉

[dddamaged]

A study could be done on why the sympathetic nervous system is now so sensitive. To combat it, deep belly breathing to activate the parasympathetic nervous system.

[crystalrose]

I'm here cause earlier today I was in the room alone, secretly recording a cute short video, when one of my parents suddenly walked in, and I jumped (not the regular scared reaction, it was involuntary and from my inner core, as the doc described it as "jumping out of my skin" literally)
Throughout my teenage years I underwent heavy abuse from both of my parents and that heavy trauma left a significant impact. Even though now in my twenties, i've been maintaining somewhat of a good relation with only one my parents. But whenever any of them walks in suddenly, even if I was doing nothing wrong, my body does that exaggerated startle response. Associated with a sudden intense body spasm, which got recorded in my video, and I examined it, to which I realised that it's not normal. Thus my research and finding out that, true, it is a PTS, what might be either Hyperekplexia or nonhabituating hyperstartling.
Hopefully i'll get to recover by realizing that no more harm could be done. As the pain caused by my parents to younger me. We're not weak, we're strong adults now and everything's gonna be okay.
I'm a biologist btw, and used to ace my neuroscience exams, amazing how our autonomic nervous system works.

[yee]

My startle effect is insane. I scare people with my reactions.

[baldeepkaur]

Hi I have PTSD and I’ve tried different therapies such as EMDR, CBT, Somatic therapy, hypnotherapy and nothing has worked for me, my symptoms are still the same. I am still hypervigilant. I get startled by sudden loud noises or movements. I cannot seem to deal with any little amount of stress or excitement. What do I need to do to treat this please?

[XDoggiesseXD]

Is this a mental health condition? I have this chronicly since a few months with certain people

[minutesago]

Do. Not. Change. The eyeball cam. I love it.
Happy accident,