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Flight/fight/freeze are common responses to trauma. The ability to activate all three mechanisms is why people both survive & heal from traumatic events. Much of this ability is genetic & biological (or what we inherit as a stress response mechanism).
Flight/fight/freeze are common responses to trauma. The ability to activate all three mechanisms is why people both survive & heal from traumatic events. Much of this ability is genetic & biological (or what we inherit as a stress response mechanism).
2/6 Post trauma occurs when cognitions become altered such that the mind tells the body to see threat everywhere (imagined rather than real). Essentially there’s a “misfiring”; ensuring the flight/fight response is activated regardless of threat. Over time this becomes normalised
3/5 Freeze is an essential “holding pattern” that occurs when traumatic events take a while for the brain to process or “catch up” with what is occurring
4/5 Freeze also has dissociative elements which has the outcome of forcing the heart rate down to enable access to the higher level thinking part of your brain. This ensures higher level problem solving is possible to ensure survival or planned escape.
5/6 The flight/fright response is the body in hyperarousal. The brain tells the body to “arm itself” to enable either physical escape (flight) or to defence (fight).
6/6 It makes sense that flight/fight/freeze are all needed in order to survive” traumatic events. Switching between dissociation and hyperarousal being the critical survival & post trauma healing elements.
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