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What does hyperalert mean?

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Adjective
  1. Excessively alert, especially as a result of traumatic stress.
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It will keep you hyperalert, though sometimes you're too scared to get out of the truck.
In this state, which is entered into unknowingly, the individual becomes hyperalert to rejection, growing increasingly inclined to perceive social interactions as tinged with hostility or scorn.
You go into hyperalert mode until the threat passes, and other hormones shut down your signaling loop.
This overreaction makes your body produce excess amounts of the stress hormones adrenaline and cortisol, which can make you hyperalert and anxious.
But mindfulness is different from the hyperalert way you might feel after a great night's sleep or a strong cup of coffee.
Naturally enough, in a story about a tainted emotional legacy and a virus that invades a person's DNA, Roth is hyperalert to the possibility of creative slippage between literal and metaphorical inheritance.

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