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As I wrote in Strongmen, every authoritarian state seeks to create states of hypervigilance and fear among the public, so that people will self-censor, and comply with whatever the leader asks them to do.

Medication also ameliorated the physical symptoms of anxiety and hypervigilance.

“If I smell a firepit or woodstove or chimney that I don’t know where it is coming from, I get concerned and start thinking about what I need to do if I need to evacuate. As long as it is dry, windy, or any kind of fire weather, these feelings are now a persistent part of my mental state. I go into a hypervigilance mode that I never experienced before.”

But what I would like to say, too, is that while I live in a state of hypervigilance, his threat to me did not cause me to back down.

She said she has to have her guard up, especially closer to nighttime, and the constant hypervigilance makes her not feel safe in the world.