The need to be aware of everyone around you

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It drives me nuts, but I'm not sure if it's just paranoia/anxiety, or if I'm wired that way. I can't relax at all unless I can maintain awareness of the people around me, which is why I always need to have the door closed. It's why having two or more people with me in the same room for long periods of time drives me insane.

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Same here, always on standby for trouble.

I sleep with the door closed, get tense if I am in one perceivably unsafe location to much and if I am in public I am on standby to lunge.

Triggers for me are behaviour vastly out of usual behaviour, as in agressive, disorderly, drunk, etc. At that moment I get pumped up to physically handle the situation.

For my own health, I try to manage the stress of the awareness by simulating such situations until I get an experienced fighters' pose, knowing what to do and knowing that what I can and can't do. Keeping your head level is very important to be able to act.

Not always a pleasant reaction, but a useful one for when there is real trouble - I get real calm at the peek of the excitement.

I am always aware of everyone around me, I am constantly turning around to see what the people behind me will do. I absolutely hate walking at the front of a group of people in case someone suprises me and gives me a heart attack. I always have mini-shocks every single day from things happening around me.

My awareness of people is too much. Sometimes when I am out walking in the streets I am aware my brain is tracking the people coming toward me. It gets very boring. I hate people walking behind me. Especially women in high heels, I have to stop and let them walk ahead until the sound goes down. I think there are too many people on the planet.

I'm always aware of the people in the house, even if I am in my room with the door closed. Even if they are being perfectly quiet and minding their own business or immersed in their work, I am aware of them, and it makes me anxious. The exception is my (now ex) bf. his presence in the house, even if I am away from him in my room, even sleeping, makes me feel more at ease.

I take the metro train to work. I park in their garage. It is ok. I don't work too late. I leave DC well before it is dark. But I do get scared walking to my car sometimes because men especially are following me way too close. I hate the sounds of heels that women wear because the noise is so annoying! Some of these women who wear heels follow me way to closely too. I quickly turn my head or glance to the side to see if that person is doing something wrong. Also when I'm driving back home, sometimes another driver is turning the same way that I am. If they are going to turn to the street that I live on I by pass my house and go another way to make sure that person isn't following me. I rather have my parents pick me up from the metro train station. Plus I avoid that $4.50 parking fee per day if they did that.

same. i think it is one of my biggest hurdles.

Not as hard a case as some here, but I am aware of others' presence even in the outbuildings, can work around othrs only if there is no involvement and I blinker myself, annoyed my mother by keeping the door of my room closed and offended a sister-in-law by informing her [just data, right?] that 6 people in the room is for me a crowd. There were 7 present.

Yeah, I always like to take stock of who's in the vicinity. If I know there are people around, I might act different...or not, but I certainly think different. I decided to stop acting different, because over the years I've stopped caring about what other people think, and this makes me a lot of friends LOL. But oh well, most people suck anyways. I have the friends I need.