I am to a point and I think a lot of people with PTSD are because we are more on the defensive than most people, and therefore more aware
I can smell a rapist from a mile away I think

I am the same way. All I have to do is look at the person....maybe I am not crazy after all...lol

Also this ability can get me in alot of trouble if I am not careful. I have in the passed been the type to sence something is wrong and speak my mind and had to find evidence to back what i said up.....you know I have yet to fail.

I think when we have faced traumas, particularly childhood traumas our sensitivity gets.heightened to protect us.

God I WISH I had the rationality to think so clearly.

We are all hypervigiliant (PTSD-ers) - not all of us have such clarity of vision and confidence. I'm jealous.

You might like to see a T.V. series called 'Lie To Me' which uses the lastest science to portray how much can be read by even the smallest signals.

Humm I have never heard that...I will have to watch that. I do have to say I have been sensitive to things from childhood. I remember a few times saying things another person was gonna say before it got out of there mouth....I do not talk about it much people think I am crazy.

I'll have to watch what I'm thinking around you guys...lol.

I liked Lie to Me too, but I'm afraid they cancelled it...so no more episodes here in the US. Maybe there are reruns on cable or online. I thought of it as mostly fantasy, but maybe I'm wrong, I don't know.

The researchers who uncovered the brain changes that take place in abused children have speculated that these changes could be an adaptation that allows humans to survive desperate times by producing a different kind of human...one better suited to a hostile, very challenging environment like the aftermath of some huge geological event.

I find myself intensely aware of my neighbors and constantly on guard against possible threats to my safety. I can see that most other people just do not live this way...and I envy their complacency sometimes. But we'll have the last laugh if civilization collapses as some are predicting it will eventually...not really a comforting thought, I know.

This could all be part of a process of transformation for humanity...life becoming more stressful, children being abused and neglected, those children growing up to become vigilant, distrustful. It could be the same process that happened when the Mayan and Aztec civilizations collapsed, the Roman Empire fractured, etc.