"I think about it this morning as a car with an alarm where someone touches the car and the car sounds and alarm. There has to be a definite kind of threat for an alarm to go off in that car. Well if a car had PTSD, it isn't just when the car has a definite threat, it could be a person walking along several feet away and just looking at the car funny that can set off that alarm. "Extreme sensitivity" is what I think about when I think about PTSD and how I experience it. I find that I have to really get to know when that alarm is going to go off on a much more conscious level than ever before. And sometimes I have to put that car in someplace very isolated so that alarm system wont keep going off, because it is loud and very disturbing and even dibilitating. The alarm is so sensitive that I have to work on each thing that sets that alarm off and then slowly take the car out and see if it can sit quietly parked without that alarm just quickly going off because there was something else that I didn't see to slowly fix and adjust."

"Hey, if my alarm system has gone off, I don't need someone to come at me and make it worse by touching the car doors and shaking it when the alarm is already blaring and I can bearly think it is so loud"

That is a fantastic way to describe it. Thank you so much!