Sentences with phrase «ongoing fight or flight response»

Not exact matches

[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.

Depending on the age at which a child experienced a traumatic event or ongoing trauma, the initial response may range from hyperarousal (fight or flight) to dissociation (freeze and surrender), or a combination of the two (Perry, 2002).