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Hypervigilance is really a state of increased vigilance, anxiety, and sensitivity to environmental stimuli. Your mind, filled using the horror PTSD talk and terror of the helplessness you felt during that particular incident, would overreact whenever anything triggers (or reminds you) concerning the scene. Leaving the penitentiary can be a great relief to every ex-convict who is willing to accomplish everything a good citizen does. But as soon he gets out of the confining prison walls may be the realization that the social stigma of being an ex-con follows him wherever he goes.