Understanding Fight, Flight, Freeze, and the Feign Response

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It's more empowering to reframe the fawn reaction to danger as a feign response. arttherapynews explains why.

to release chemicals to prepare the body for fight or flight. If it is not possible to escape or fight, the limbic system then engages the parasympathetic nervous system to initiate a freeze or collapse response in the body, resulting in immobilization, restricted breathing, and decreased metabolism. In humans, freeze reactions may include psychological dissociation.

Fawn ubiquitously appears without question in just about every current meme, chart, or infographic defining core trauma responses. But it is now time to take a step back and revisit this descriptor and the connotations that accompany it. It certainly is no longer defined as a"defensive" strategy as originally described by Walker.

 

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