What is “fight-flight-freeze”?

Anxiety causes a reaction called "battle - flight - freeze". This auto attendant helps to cope with the danger. For example, when you feel you are not ready (fighting), you may yell at your mother to push you to take a driving license test. Because you are not accustomed to unknown people (flight), you can avoid attending the party and leaving early. Alternatively, as your teacher blanks your thoughts, as your teacher asked you, you may freeze and wish that the danger does not notice you.

Freezing of this fighting flight is very cool. It is like having the power of superheroes, you can activate them when you need to protect yourself.

This is the reason why battle or flight response is now called battle, flight or freeze response. Sometimes, when the odds are overwhelming, we do not fight nor run away, just freeze. And it is of particular importance for the treatment of trauma patients who experience flashback and other (implicit) memory fragments that may keep plaguing them over the next few years as survivors of freezing events Has been done. Future articles will explain this aspect of battle, flight, freeze response.

Almost everyone is familiar with combat flight responses - your response to stimulation is considered an immediate threat to your survival. But little known is the Battle-Flight-Freeze reaction, which adds important aspects and when you encounter the situation overwhelms your coping ability and makes you stay in fear You may react. In short, this is how the survival-oriented acute stress response works. Regardless of whether it is correct or not, if you evaluate the immediate threat as a possibility of failure, you enter battle mode. In this case, the hormone released by your sympathetic nervous system - especially adrenaline - hopes you will fight you energetically and defeat the hostile entity. Conversely, if you think resistance is too strong to overcome, your impulse is to exceed it (the sooner the better).

Evolution: All animals show "battle or escape" response to threats to ensure survival. Mammals advanced one step further and showed the reaction of "battle, flight, freeze" against war. For humans, this mammal's "freezing" response to threats includes threat suppression, punishment, and emotional behavior. Responding to this "freeze", "closure", or "passively avoided" threat is common in human anxiety and depression (eg due to fears or fears fixed by anxiety and depression Hesitation)