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Submitted to Contest #181
Fight, Flight, Freeze… the three trauma responses that I have heard about for years. I wish these three, along with the other trauma responses, did not even exist. But they have to, right? Because if we did not have trauma responses, our kind, humans as we know it, would never have made it to present day 2023. Our ancestors were rough and tough, and without the internet to look up “How to dodge a bengal tiger” back then, the good Lord gave them the almighty amygdala to activate the fight, flight, or freeze response. The activation of these t...
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