The fight and
flight response seen in dogs, is an innate survival instinct you still see in humankind as well.
Not exact matches
They forgot about the oxytocin... My vaginal birth not having messed things up (and the pitocin having even increased my natural levels... shh don't tell anyone), I was able to chill out and send the occasional text message without the usual fight or
flight response caused by texting while I get on the freeway (wait a minute, I thought fight or
flight was the
response caused in all the other drivers when they
see you texting).
I had a fight or
flight response whenever I
saw a pregnant woman or newborn baby, whenever anyone would ask me about my birth or talk about their birth — I could not discuss any of it without feeling horrible inside.
Epinephrine plays a central role in the short - term stress reactions: the physiological
response to threatening or exciting conditions (
see fight - or -
flight response).
Breathtaking cinematography from Hoyte van Hoytema (Interstellar, Spectre) and a galvanizing soundtrack from Hans Zimmer notwithstanding, the overall experience of
seeing Dunkirk might be summed up as non-stop fight or
flight response.
We are living in such uncertain and challenging times that young people need to have this inner strength, this inner reservoir they can depend on and go to when difficulties arise, so that they are able to manage their stress, rather than
seeing all things as a state of emergency where the fight - or -
flight response goes off.
Check for Injuries Once you have calmed down your «fight or
flight»
response, it is time to check to
see if you and your passengers are okay.
[00:03:53] Well so there's a couple of things to kind of unpack in there so you are exactly right that we know that children who have been exposed to repeated complex trauma we do
see changes in their ongoing brain development and brain chemistry and I am no neuroscientist however we know that for example the simple way to think about it is that those are kids who may have changes as you said in their stress
response their reactivity so they may be kids who you know sort of fight or
flight in sort of a simplistic way is changed so that they may react in an overexaggerated way or they may also have sort of an inappropriately low
response to danger.
It's the pissed off wife or girlfriend, and when she comes at him, baring her teeth and berating him with criticisms, his body
sees danger and involuntarily switches into autonomic nervous system (ANS) arousal, which triggers the fight -
flight response.