Why does hearing loss occur during a fight or flight response?

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what is the point of losing your hearing during the fight or flight response?

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Anonymous 0 Comments

It’s not so much that you lose the ability to hear. Every one has been in scary situations and jumped at relatively innocuous stimuli – like the door bell ringing when we weren’t expecting it

It’s more, as far as I can make out, that we lose the ability to process complex cognitive loads under stress.

Here’s a paper that explains in more detail.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5944410/

Best wishes.

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