When most people are in an intense situation (out of rest or digest mode), you generally enter a mode to either fight (and hope you get out the victor) or flight (run and hope you get away). What about Cower (and likely die or just spend time relapsing till your body (if ever) returns into a “safe to restart” mode) Think about a person freezing up to the point they go into a coma or cowering and muttering complete nonsense. Would that be under flighting mentally?
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“Fight-or-flight” is an oversimplification, and actually has been in some cases referred to as fight-flight-freeze or things of that nature, too. Basically your system just gets hit with a rush of hormones and signals putting you on hyper alert/stimulation. What you do after that isn’t always predefined.
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