Sentences with phrase «flight response spurring»

Allegations of alienation are extraordinarily painful to all involved, and it seems to me that it is the intensity of our emotional response to such allegations which sparks the fight - or - flight response spurring conflict and... [more]

We understood that sympathetic activation fuels anxiety and rage, parasympathetic dominance causes shutdown and passive - aggressive behavior, flight responses spur fleeing the therapist's office, and fight responses lead to verbal or physical aggression or violence turned against the self.