How to Use hypervigilance in a Sentence

hypervigilance

noun

• Those who live with their abusers may be in a state of hypervigilance, increasingly alert as the threat of abuse looms.
  — Alia E. Dastagir, USA TODAY, 12 July 2020
• Your wife has been living in a state of hypervigilance.
  — Amy Dickinson, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Jan. 2023
• And being here means adapting to hypervigilance against the virus.
  — Calvin Woodward, USA TODAY, 22 Sep. 2021
• Anxiety, hypervigilance, and panic in the days, weeks, or months following the birth are just some of the symptoms of birth trauma.
  — Claire Gillespie, Health.com, 10 Nov. 2021
• A lot of us have had this blanket of constant awareness or hypervigilance.
  — Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 4 Mar. 2021
• In these videos and among their spectators, there’s a hypervigilance about the appearance of flavor.
  — Jenny G. Zhang, Bon Appétit, 23 Aug. 2022
• One way to do counter doomscrolling and other forms of hypervigilance, experts say, is to turn off the news and avoid your social media feed for at least a few hours every single day.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 27 Oct. 2020
• My wife and daughter’s presence, however, had put me in a state of man-dad hypervigilance, with my limbic system on primordial high alert.
  — Tom Vanderbilt, Outside Online, 2 July 2019
• Jansen was unaccustomed to such hypervigilance in the students there.
  — Rowan Ricardo Phillips, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2022
• Anxiety, hypervigilance, avoidance, and fear are all trauma symptoms that linger long after the danger has passed.
  — Maya Kachroo-Levine, Travel + Leisure, 28 May 2021
• With fears growing of saboteurs already infiltrating the city, a sense of hypervigilance has descended on Kyiv.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2022
• Working through this issue with his dog by his side greatly has decreased his anxiety and hypervigilance symptoms.
  — Shauna Springer, CNN, 13 May 2021
• Even among adults, the extreme conditions create a hypervigilance that can never completely be turned off.
  — Amy Ettiinger, CNN, 11 Jan. 2023
• Your comment about your wife’s hypervigilance and fault-finding being her way of coping with her anxieties is perceptive.
  — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 10 Oct. 2020
• Her grandmother’s hypervigilance and obsession with survival places a burden on Nora that the latter can’t carry.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 23 Apr. 2022
• No, this responsibility is felt most in German society, where the memory of the Holocaust drives an ever-present nervousness and hypervigilance around the topic.
  — Madhvi Ramani, The Week, 2 June 2021
• Or perhaps that two years of hypervigilance, of masking everywhere, of eating at an indoor restaurant exactly once since March 2020, bought me immunity.
  — Damon Young, Washington Post, 23 May 2022
• Either way, the constant hypervigilance of a painful, visible health condition can quickly leave you feeling depleted.
  — Ashley Abramson, Allure, 7 Feb. 2022
• Adults, too, are struggling with symptoms of anxiety like insomnia, hypervigilance and avoidance.
  — Renee Ghert-Zand, sun-sentinel.com, 14 July 2021
• There are also several ways to work through hypervigilance on your own, therapists say: Understand what’s triggering the behavior.
  — Erica Sweeney, Men's Health, 27 Feb. 2023
• Visconti’s work life was not only contributing to health issues, but also to a rise in stress and hypervigilance, which significantly impacted her quality of life.
  — Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 23 Aug. 2023
• Personal protective equipment was always worn and the hypervigilance never turned off.
  — Kristen Griffith, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 15 Dec. 2020
• But on an individual level, questions linger, ones heightened by 16 months of hypervigilance.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 4 June 2021
• Additionally, trauma is known to increase one’s state of hypervigilance, or the elevated state of constantly assessing potential threats in the area.
  — Deion Scott Hawkins, Fortune, 8 Feb. 2023
• The experience of racial trauma, which can recur throughout a Black person’s lifetime, can cause a number of mental health issues such as anxiety, depression, hypervigilance and fear that have the potential to impact physical health.
  — NBC News, 26 Sep. 2020
• For some, being taken by surprise by such imagery can ultimately cause ongoing hypervigilance, particularly in regard to their phone.
  — Molly Longman, refinery29.com, 27 Oct. 2022
• These include hypervigilance, emotional numbness, vivid dreaming or nightmares and flashbacks.
  — Sophie Wilkinson, refinery29.com, 10 June 2020
• As a result, a person who has been betrayed might experience depression, anxiety, anger, hypervigilance, shame, intrusive thoughts, self-doubt, insomnia, numbness, or panic attacks.
  — Lori Gottlieb, The Atlantic, 28 Feb. 2022
• Carden brings vulnerability and an undeniable sexiness to Greta, whose saucy charm masks a survivor's hypervigilance.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 11 Aug. 2022
• Loneliness and isolation drive unbalanced activation of the sympathetic nervous system, leading to hypervigilance, or scanning the environment for threats.
  — Clay Marsh, Fortune Well, 15 July 2023

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024