#Hyperawareness

[schizoidvision]

7 Reasons Why Schizoids Experience Hyperawareness

Hyperawareness, in psychological terms, refers to an acute sensitivity to external stimuli and the constant monitoring of one’s environment, particularly how one is perceived by others. Schizoid individuals, who prefer solitude and emotional detachment, paradoxically exhibit pronounced hyperawareness of their social surroundings. This heightened awareness, which often results in significant mental and emotional exertion, serves as part of their defense mechanism to avoid unwanted interactions and maintain control rather than forming meaningful relationships. Despite this, schizoids can develop self-insight through conscious exploration, though it varies by their development stage. This article explores the reasons behind this paradox and its psychological implications.

1. Early Childhood Experiences and Psychological Makeup:

Schizoid individuals' hyperawareness is deeply rooted in their early childhood experiences. During infancy, they often face trauma or neglect, leading to the formation of complex defense mechanisms. These defenses help them cope with the lack of emotional attunement from primary caregivers, such as neglect, inconsistency, and emotional coldness. This early environment sets the stage for their heightened awareness of their social surroundings.

2. Objectification of Self

Without nurturing emotional bonds, schizoid individuals often perceive themselves as objects rather than people. This self-objectification increases their concern about how others view them. They see themselves as entities to be observed, leading to a heightened awareness of their actions and presence in social settings.

3. Defense Mechanisms and Emotional Detachment:

To protect themselves from further emotional harm, schizoids develop defense mechanisms like intellectualization and emotional detachment. While they become hyper-aware of their external environment, especially how others perceive them, they remain emotionally detached. This detachment allows them to navigate social situations without becoming emotionally involved, using their hyperawareness as a tool for self-protection.

4. Social Surveillance

Schizoid individuals engage in constant social surveillance to avoid unwanted attention and conflicts. This behavior, rooted in early defensive strategies, helps them maintain control over their social environment. However, it also reinforces their detachment, as they are more focused on monitoring others than on understanding their internal emotional states.

5. Hyper-awareness and Social Perception:

Schizoid individuals' hyper-awareness is not about forming relationships but about avoiding unwanted interactions and conflicts. They engage in social surveillance to blend in and maintain control over their environment. This constant monitoring helps them understand and prepare for social interactions by knowing what is expected of them, even if they do not seek deep connections.

6. Fragmented Self and Lack of Self-insight:

Despite their hyper-awareness, schizoids often lack self-insight. The ability to perceive oneself from others' perspectives does not provide true feedback on one's deeper self. As a result, their true selves remain hidden, leading to emotionally detached and superficial interactions. This emotional detachment contributes to an underdeveloped self-concept and identity, making self-understanding challenging.

7. Cognitive and Emotional Split:

Schizoid individuals experience a divide between their cognitive and emotional selves due to the defensive mechanisms developed during childhood. They may objectify themselves, seeing themselves more as objects rather than people, which intensifies their concern about how they are viewed by others. This cognitive-emotional split means they often feel like they are performing a task rather than enjoying social interactions, leading to a preference for solitude and work environments where they can avoid the stress of constant social monitoring.

In Summary...

Schizoid individuals display a paradoxical behavior where they exhibit hyperawareness, an acute sensitivity to external stimuli and constant monitoring of their social environment, whilst sometimes lacking deep self-insight. This hyperawareness, rooted in early childhood experiences and defensive mechanisms, helps them avoid unwanted interactions and maintain control rather than developing meaningful relationships. Understanding this phenomenon can help schizoid individuals to connect with the deeper reasons behind their functioning and gain greater conscious awareness of the psychological dynamics that are influencing their personal journey.

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[seraphim-soulmate]

Sensory sensitivities and being prone to sensory overload is an extremely isolating and difficult thing to navigate. I realized I can only do a limited number of activities a day because there's so much sensory input that I have to process. Being in my own house is a lot of sensory input, even when I've tried to make it as safe as possible, but add to that going to a grocery store or going to see a friend or countless other activities and I find I can really only do about 1-2 Big Things a day because there's so much that my brain has to process. If I wake up on a day where I'm even more aware of things or sensitive than usual, I have to cancel plans because my clothes feel wrong and my hair is touching me the wrong way and if I add anything on top of that, I'm shutting down or having a meltdown that's going to take me days to recover from.

Some sensory sensitivities are related to cleanliness, to the environment around you, which you can't always control and/or you end up making others feel like shit about because their house isn't sensory friendly to your specific needs. Asking people to clean their house for you to be able to come over feels fucking terrible, and trying to discreetly clean at someone's house so you don't have a meltdown makes others feel bad about themselves.

Having to refuse impromptu invitations to an event because you already went out that day just keeps you isolated. You can't always ask or expect everyone to always remember that your daily life experience is at a baseline, overwhelming. If I have to go out to an event in the evening, I have to spend most (if not all) of my day physically and mentally preparing for that. Having to take a nap is included in my preparations because I need to reset my brain from the sensory experiences I already had just getting ready.

And when the solutions offered are "avoid things that will cause you sensory overload", you find yourself at a loss for what you can safely do. You find yourself isolating and developing avoidant behaviors because you just cannot handle input. You sometimes find yourself leaning on alcohol or other substances to dial down the amount of sensory input you process. You find yourself needing to be chemically numbed to be able to enjoy spending time with others or doing anything because you just can't handle how much is going on that others don't even register is happening.

It's a scary, isolating, alienating and often confrontational experience to have to live this way. That no one else can see and no one can understand your individual experience, even others that have sensory sensitivities will have needs that differ or clash with yours, so you can't always accommodate different people with the same things.

Just to conclude this with a moment of recognition to anyone who lives with sensory sensitivities, are prone to sensory overload and/or have disabling sensory limits. I see you! Your limits and boundaries matter! I'm so sorry that there is so much to process.

[velhasileyvallah]

Her şeyin farkında olup ne yapman gerektiğini biliyorsundur ama yapacak ne zihinsel ne fiziksel ne de psikolojik gücün kalmamıştır...

[extellium]

what a hilarious thought! but in genshin i’d like to think the characters i have are hyper-aware about the fact that they are just game characters, and sometimes don’t appreciate the fact that they are restricted by their game personalities.

so when i log out for several days and don’t return, the characters just roam around teyvat, or browse the internet via the ipad i play it on. and of course, they act vastly different from the characters they play. think griffin burn’s version of childe (if you don’t know what i mean, then search it up..).

i also like to think that they see me as extremely funny and silly but just can’t do anything about it because when i’m there, they have to do their job…

[earlosharpauthor]

Inner Machinations (08/19/23)

In the moment where you feel

the inner machinations of your own body,

one of two things will happen:

You will feel the joy of life,

or the dread of it.

Every pulsating heartbeat,

every shift of muscle tissue,

reminds you that you are human,

for better or for worse.

// E Arlo Sharp

[stupendousfuckcurtain]

That one moment when someone just casually says your name during a conversation and suddenly you're hyperaware of everything just existing. You're a living senient being on a planet floating in an immeasurable vacuum. You and your name are nothing but specks in the universe and yet everything feels so real and vivid that it consumes you sometimes. You, your life, everything around you just is.

[genshin-impact-updates]

Happy Birthday, Neuvillette!

"This water is really... really something!"

"An almost glacial sweetness that hides the subtlest hint of bitterness, then swallows it back up with its mellow aftertaste. An intriguing profile indeed."

[yaksinhats]

woes of dating baldur's gate's only other cult leader who also happens to be using you to complete his murder-suicide plan

[aroaceleovaldez]

random nico power headcanon of mine is that he can overhear things through shadows, particularly if he really focuses in and listens, and if anyone says his name it'll catch his attention through the shadows no matter where either of them are.

the angsty half of this hc is that it means Nico is unfortunately extremely aware of all the negative things people say about him, because he's forced to hear it constantly even when no one else is around unless he's actively tuning it out.

the funny half is that it means Nico knows way too much gossip, and the shippy portion is that it means Nico is far too aware of when people are saying nice things about him and he doesn't know what to do about it.

[suppenzeit]

chilch with whiskers feat. chilaios

[puppyeared]

mascot

[spearxwind]

Tbh. Incel marvel mjölnir vs mega chad god of war mjölnir. If you even care.

[leafatlaw]

Ask me how normal i am about sl! Scott and pearl, ask me i dare you

Their fucking,,, “were past that” “i love you” in the early episodes- pearl not saying it back– Scotts reluctance to team up with the mounders.. and then fucking scott in the final fight telling gem “you cant team with her[Pearl]”. they are so abnormal about eachother, worlds worst exs

[opal-owl-flight]

"And theyre singing!"

4 notices that the second she gets to her homeland with 3 in tow, they,,, change

Into someone who doesnt have the world on their shoulders.

They frequently hold their arms out, feeling the gusting winds of the highlands rushing past them. They like the feeling of flight!

[cybertron-smash-or-pass]

TF One D-16

[cryptocism]

love that Thad interprets inertia to mean continuing at all costs and Three takes it to mean stagnancy, bc theyre both right!! objects in motion saty in motion objects at rest stay at rest just like newton said

exactly yeah! because i knew i wanted Thad to reclaim the name for himself (with the whole "it means what i say it means" mantra) it needed to mean more to him than just a representation of Thawne Legacy Kill The Allens etc.

a reoccurring thing in Frequency that i liked to lean into was this idea of Good Inertia and Bad Impulses (bc Bart and Thad as narrative foils continues to rotate in my brain forever). i think Bart's solo does a cool exploration of both good and bad impulses throughout the run, it's kind of the central conflict of the whole thing, but it's usually in regards to Bart either unwittingly getting himself into trouble or accidentally solving problems by just leaping into everything without thinking twice. but the concept of inertia is pretty exclusively portrayed as negative. which is fair, the phrase "coasting on inertia" is in the lexicon for a reason. but i think it deserved a fair shot - the concept of continuing in spite of everything can actually be a really good instinct when you're in a bad situation. keeping up that momentum, moving forward no matter what, there's definitely something inspirational there that appeals to me.

and an aspect of impulses that didnt get as much spotlight in Bart's solo was the kinds of impulses that recoil at the thought of unpleasantness. the impulse to hide from responsibility, the impulse to distract from pain, to avoid discomfort, etc. (big part of that is because in Bart's solo, most of the worst moments of his life hadn't happened to him yet) so i wanted to explore it a little in Frequency

anyway yeah, Bad Impulses and Good Inertia. which was kinda in conversation with Bart and Thad's dispositions, and how they run counter to typical hero/villain narratives. (Bart doesn't really get people, goes his own way, has pretty emotionally selfish and sometimes violent tendencies when he's pissed off. Thad's much more of a people person, lives for praise and pleasing others, seems to forget to do violence when he's supposed to i.e. that time he put Bart in VR jail even though Bart was completely incapacitated and by Thawne logic Thad should've just killed him. it just... doesn't occur to him as a thing he should do lmao)