The Fight Flight Freeze Response
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- The "fight or flight response" is our body's automatic and primitive, inborn response that prepares the body to "fight" or "flee" from perceived attack, harm or threat to our survival. Sometimes, though, we perceive threat or harm when in reality, things are totally fine.
This video explains how FFF-responses work, what it does to our body and mind, and how to deal with it.
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My therapist recommended this.
Same
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Yep, same
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This is a great video I've been recommending for my clients. It is so helpful to understand that scary symptoms are not threatening.
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Just before I turned around and thought I saw someone but it was my hoodie that tricked me into thinking someone was right behind me wearing a mask and my fff response was instantly triggered and it was crazy
When surprised: freeze
When scared: flight
When wounded: fight
If a bull or horse was charging at you freeze would be best also gives you time to move away calmly which will make them less likely to continue charging
Speaking from experience
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But even basic non dangerous stress responses follow these three reactions showing the general reaction a person might have toward stress.
I for example, will often freeze and lock up in situations that say, make me angry, another production of stress. Or if I’m watching something that I find horrifying, my body again locks up.
I figured if I drink coffee or any stimulant like redbull this triggers my fight or flight response too. I had a break from coffee/caffeine for 2 days and I was so relaxed in stressful situations, today a customer offered to make me a coffee, I took them up on it and it made me feel dreadful, tunnel vision kicked in and I got the jitters too. maybe this may help someone on this thread too.
A wonderfully illustrated video that explains the FFF response in a concise way.
Starved
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Wholesome comment💙
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Dude just look at it now :)
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let us dine little fox
I never realised I suffered from anxiety, but I have had a dreadful FFF response at the thought of buying my first home. I had been saving for years, then received an inheritance and could afford to buy somewhere. However, I am a perfectionist and afraid of making a 'wrong' decision and my amygdala went in to overdrive. I was overcome with reasons not to even view houses. I looked at some online and saved them as 'favourites', thinking that I could come back to them at a later date when I had decided if I wanted to view or buy them. It never occurred to me that they would get sold and that houses that came on the market afterwards would be more expensive. I thought that that by 'saving' them as 'favourites' was the equivalent of putting them in my online basket. As time went on, the houses were becoming less affordable, but I couldn't work out why, so my solution was to save even harder. As I look back now, I break down in tears sometimes as I really cannot understand how/what I was thinking. I've been priced out of the market and have lost my long-term relationship as a result of me not buying somewhere. Another video on youtube states that in such situations, 'your thinking brain literally goes offline', which is exactly what happened to me. Since my anxiety has been diagnosed this year, it's been horrible. I look back at all the irrational thoughts I had which stopped me buying somewhere when I had the chance (I'm in my 50s now) and realise just how stupid they were (even though my brain convinced me that they were sensible at the time). The moral of this is that the FFF response doesn't just apply to physical threats, but can be any situation that someone is anxious about.
I love that hedgehog.
Not the same thing. Da fuck
must be nice to have to freakout of something positive. I'm working 2 jobs working on affording a car.
damn these replies are mean. don't listen to them. i don't wanna sound patronizing as i also suffer from anxiety, but here's a thing, there's no manual book on how to live and sometimes we have to learn through mistakes which i know can be suck
I know you commented this a long time ago, but is there a chance you still know what that other video you watched about “your brain going offline” was?
Thanks for this video you really helped me treat my anxiety!!
Hi Marty! Thank you so much for your feedback and really happy to hear that the video and learning about the origins and underpinnings of anxiety has helped you handle these symptoms :)
Learning a First Aid Course and a Mental Health First Aid Course can give you skills and confidence so you can cope in some difficult situations.
If you have high anxiety like me Do these 3 things it helps me a lot:
1. Your Mind must be rational.
2. Your Breath: Double inhale and exhale slowly.
3. Observe the Person that u feel anxiety from by project ur attention outward. The easy is body language the hardest is their facial expression. Repeat the step 2-3 time.
I love THAT hedgehog
Hello,
This is an excellent video for describing the fight, flight, freeze response. Is there a way to receive permission to share this through an online learning course? It is a wonderful resource!
Hello Hannah.
Thank you for your positive feedback. Much appreciated. At this stage, we don't license out our videos. They are part of our own online courses at www.braive.com
you don't even know your fate, hedgehog
Bro these fnf kid bruh💀💀
@@semtaxx1297 I was a different person then
@semtaxx1297 also im too lazy to change my profile picture
A hedgehog is an extraordinary creature. Fascinating too. I feel you though.
@@semtaxx1297 starved egg man is not just from fnf. it was originally a video called "egg man eats sonic"
I always freak out in survival mode😂😂😂
miinecraft eh
Quite delicious, i do say
I always thought the flight fight response was a good thing in theory, but in practice often leads to poor decisions and actually worse performance in stressful situations. (From my experience).
I think that when we are exposed to something serious that we are not used to the brain sort of just panics and stops functioning. This is when I believe the freezing is worse, because we have not experienced this situation before and so the brain does not know how to react. If the body stayed functioning normally we would be able to asses properly and then act without being hindered by the feeling of nausia or extreme nervousness.
Is there any way to ensure that we do not freeze when an emergency arises?
3 ways:
1. Experience the emergency on purpose in order to have a reference for your brain to fall back on.
2. Be always mentally prepared for an emergency, in other words be ready to maintain rational thinking through willpower. At all times. A very stressful approach in my opinion, but then again that depends on your environment/situation.
3. Be a high enough psychopath that your panic mode only manifest chemically, meaning that you don't perceive a threat as dangerous enough that your body freezes.
Bonus: Of course you could always luck out, hoping your instincts are sharp enough to save you.
Ideally you'd want to cover all of the above, however that will make you weird, since your responses to external stimuli will be very different from the vast majority of society.
As stupid as it seems man you just have to believe in yourself. If you arent frightened then you wont react like that.
i got into a fist fight today and i just stood there like a moron while the other dude beat the living crap out of me. i didnt pass out i just laughed at him. luckily freez has the ability to prevent you from feeling any pain. but its still a shit tactic.
@@keanondelport1815 block and dodge lets you do the same thing.
Painting Guy 40k yes there is a way to actully reduce this response and it is to not sit down when having adrenline becouse sitting down gives you the frezee response. The second way is to stop bieng in cornered places becouse then youre body cant use the envoiorment and will literly frezee thinking the predetor cornored me. Hope this helps 😀
*I love that hedgehog*
Uh quick problem the hedgehog ACTUALLY KNOWS IT FATE WHAT DO I DO NOW
*that damn hedgehog*
@@goblinwantgold6189 *where is he.*
@@ballsballs924 in the notepad, he’s reading his fate HURRY
@@richardgibson8403 sayori notepad v5
You don't even know your fate, hedgehog
Prey reference !?!!!??!?!?!?!???!!?
i love this video i watched it about 7 times right now! good job!!!
Have you ever experienced that your alarm system went off when there really wasn't any threat or harm?
Braive everyday, how to tone this down?
I only feel it when watching a scary movie I was tensed up but trying to relax when my friend jokingly smacked my hand lightly. This caused my fight response to activate and a smacked her shoulder without thinking. We later laughed at this. My flight response was activated when watching a highly disturbing scene from the show 13 reasons why. I lost all control of myself, got tunnel vision and booked it till I calmed down.
yes bf said I was crazy.i ran off yelling help.
We have some good programs on www.braive.com that can help you deal with regulating the FFF response ;)
No. Always had a reason.
Adrenaline hit DIFFERENT when the coat in the dark room looks like a person
I love that hedgehog
I love that hedgehog
I have been suffering with many FFF symptoms for months now, dizziness, pounding heartbeat, blurry vision, tension headaches, you name it! I have had numerous hospital tests and even had an MRI scan of my brain because I have been so worried about what's wrong with me. Everything has come back clear. It has taken me 6 months to realise I've been bottling up my emotions & stress for my whole life. It has essentially made my body unable to recognise real threats as I'm always subconciously anxious and awaiting threats so I have FFF symptoms 24/7.
Me 2.
Months try 28 years I am a machine it turned me into a expert in dangerous and life threatening events no shit I have lived threw hell and I'm still there to this day but I am a unique individual now
@@Le_boi-c9x are you consulted a therapist?
I have a trick, say you are anxious of trading, so start with less amount or tiny steps, after each loss, treat your self with high dopamine content, which may be food or video which tricks the subconscious brain. Into reaching for it.
What if the hedgehog knows his fate
let us dine, little fox
HAHAHAHAHAHA STARVE GOT ME LIKE
I love that hedgehog
Marvolus taste.
i love that hedgehog
I often get that when the bus is too full xd
Well, that's a false activation right there. But indeed a very common one. Did you get off the bus? What was your reaction?
I loved that hedgehog
Marvellous taste.. A perfect blend of flavours..
As someone with diagnosed PTSD, this describes the response so incredibly accurately. Finally - some understanding
Thank you for your feedback. The overactivation of the FFF response is definitely part of PTSD and often also a central component in the eventual processing of, as well as flashbacks associated with, the trauma.
And I think its important for those who maybe are seeing this video trying to understand a loved ones reactions - you (as in sufferer) have absolutely no control over it. Your brain goes into self defence mode and you do not have the option to stop it at that moment in time. Logic doesnt apply - I often know I am not being logical in my thought processes but it doesnt stop the fear, just makes me feel worse. For those trying to understand - close your eyes, think of a time when you were truly, utterly terrified, absolutely petrified - were you able to talk properly, understand a conversation etc when you were in this state? Now imagine that 24/7 in the back of your head, never knowing when it will floor you.... and the trigger for that could be something as simple as dishes not packed correctly, or a social situation where there are simply too many people ...
You dont PTSD if you can post lol
@@jasonbourne2879 what😂
When the killer clowns were around I used to run back home. But once, I was sent to the shops which are quite close but halfway I saw a person standing in a clown mask, I for SURE didn't hesitate to run back home . He pretty much saw me , by the time I got home and looked through the window I saw him looking around and just run straight forward . My heart was pumping hard, mind you I was 12 back then
Have you ever heard the term Fight or Flight?
Fight or Flight starts playing*
i get freeze, too bad it’s not talked about much
This is a great simplified way to help people understand these responses! This is so well explained!
The fight reaction is like opening the 8 gates in naruto lol
Me when the hedgehog doesnt know its fate:
yes
Yippee!
beautifully illustrated and on point precise explanations of the mechanisms! Very well done!
*"i love that hedgehog"*
What’s crazy to me is that the brain learned this mechanism from our ancestors because millions of years ago it was the only logical thing they did to survive whatever situation that is so cool
I always get this for no reason. That's my major problem right now
Any improvement?
I’m here because I froze of fear. A giant lion charged me but I stood there and looked it in my eyes because my gut said to do it and my body forced me and the lion got scared and ran away!!!!
gahlee... were you alone?? Glad you lived
How tf do you encounter a lion
Yep I had encountered a moose or elk when I was young. It was so huge! when was close to the car I noticed it when I turn my head. I froze. I didn't know if it was going to charge at me or not. It didn't get scared when it seen me so I know that wasn't a regular deer. I froze for about 10 mins. Didn't call anyone's name. It was scary!
I think freezing is a useful strategy that we instinctively do sometimes. We may be unable to think of anything useful to do so saving energy until an escape route is available can be a good idea. In addition, once you are frozen, you are less interesting to the lion. Predators love playing with their prey before they kill it so you made yourself into a small target. Mice play dead if they can't get away from a cat. If the cat isn't really hungry, it will walk away out of lack of interest.
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I feel the flight or fight response every day and very often. I hate it, it can’t escape from it.
You don't even know your fate hedgehog
Me too. I hope within these 5 months of posting this u have gotten better from it. Mine started 3 weeks ago. Still constant. I start to do a bit better but then something triggers it all over again. I have health anxiety too so I obsess over every feeling I have. I even freak out over having dry eyes. It's tough for sure. If u were able to get out of it, how did u?
No,no.. it's not flight of fight. It's fight or flight.
@@Gyatt12345 are you prey?
Put ice pad on your chest, breath slowly and do some yoga. Hope this helps.
Great content. Specifically in awe of the drawings!! How can we find out who the artist is?
Thank you :) You will find much more of his drawings on our site ;)
It may be the Grim Comedian?
This is what I feel when I turn off the lights before going to bed. I feel tingling down my back too.
Starved
This video really helped me. It really made me understand the Friday night Funkin song flight or fight lore.
Is fight or flight response when you're want to fight something and at the same time wanted to retreat and you can't understand what you're gonna do and lead you to panic?
Mc Ky FX No it’s a decision you make in a bad situation you either stay and fight or run.
it's really what u trained ur mind to do...
OMFG ... her I've been suffering with anxiety and depression for all my life... and that feeling of about to faint or pass out is false when I have an attack... I never knew this!... my kind is literally blown...
Isn't this what happens during anxiety/panic attacks?
Hi Caroline, yes you are absolutely right. The FFF activates when we get anxious and PA is a result of a build up of FFF activation and the alarm system that reaches the peak point during an attack, before gradually subsiding again. PA can be really uncomfortable and scary, and can lead to fear of new attacks as well as the development of unhelpful thoughts and beliefs about having to avoid situations and/or physical sensations. Therefore it is important to learn techniques to recognise the symptoms of FFF, learn how to myth bust those fearful and unhelpful beliefs as well as techniques to cope with situations, thoughts and challenge unhelpful beliefs that might otherwise start to affect your quality of life.
I love that hedgehog
My God! So I wont even faint from the symptoms I was feeling. Just my mind playing tricks on me. I like to experiment these options soon. Not too confident now.
I have been in fight flight and freeze for over a year now it’s tearing me apart on the inside
it activates all of a suddent, when I feel alone, feel sad, feeling problems, I just can, overcome when I feel I would get freeze in any time I use to search this video, really helpful.
I love that hedgehog
You don't even know your fate, hedgehog...
*menacing laughter*
I've been passing this video on to clients with mast cell activation for years now. It's such a great brief thorough explanation. Thank you!
this is weird, but i always get this when i think of my crush or if someone talks about him.. 🧐
thats perfectly normal... fear is there aswell, right? 😁
I think you get butterfly's in stomach but not this flight or fight thing going on. Unless your crush is an abusive one
I get really scared when I hear some loud unexpected noise at night, and when I think I see something that looks like a human silhouette, I get really scared so I just sit there
Same
Had this happen when my brother and me saw this dude that's been harassing our mom. He was around the area, my brother and me looked at each other, parked the car and jumped out. He walked into an alley unaware of us and before we crossed the street as we waited for the cars to pass before crossing this had happen to me. I just took a couple breaths and said fuck it..when we crossed and started to confront him it all went away, we beat him down, spit in his face and told him if he comes around here again it's on sight.
Breathing techniques are so helpful. And videos like this for people who do not understand.
Am I the only one who gets a cold sensation in the chest like I don’t know how to explain it but it seems like I’m the only one who feels like this.
3c!
Can Fight or flight cause Acid reflux as well.
Bruh the only thing I took away from this video is that it uses the song from the original Minecraft trailer.
Excellent!! Thanks for that.
Why is the minecraft trailer background music playing
bruh. my last panic attack made me faint💀
This was a day before April fools. Happy 1-day late anniversary!
Notice that all the characteristics of the body's crisis/"fight or flight" response are *physiological* and are not equivalent to the emotion of fear; most people wrongly equate the two and thereby unfortunately think that it proves that fear is sometimes useful, when in fact it's not, as I explain in my Appeal to Nature video.
Fear is useful
I’m here because I’m a 35 year old adult with retained primitive reflexes.
For some reason my heart rate slows a lot, instead of racing. I yawn like every second its so annoying but cool to know why it happens. Same with the fainting, i’ll feel light headed and that too is annoying lol. Thanks for this video
Starved
Is it ok if I use this in our hospital education? We will of course credit you.
Great video helped me a lot with my classwork thanks!
This all happens when I got sent to the principals office just to find out I wasn’t even in trouble
wow helpful video, thank you so much!
We want to use this video for a college course in Counseling at Santa Rosa Junior College. Would you please grant us permission to caption the video so it has punctuation and clear sentences? If you turn on Community Contributions in RUclips, we could add the better captions to these videos. Alternatively, we can send you a corrected caption file that you can upload in RUclips. One more option is to use a site such as Amara.org that will embed the video and give us an interface to overlay the video with the better caption file.
All of these options leave the control in your hands. If you take down the video, it will no longer appear in the course, we will just be embedding from RUclips, not downloading the video.
Our videos are part of our courses at www.braive.com and unfortunately we do not licence them out. Best of luck with your course :)
YESS this is me! Atp of me now having to defend myself, I don't see shit but the person I'm targeted to fight. Everyone that comes my way, I don't even recognize them as a friend or foe
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Awesome explanation! Thank you so much.
I love that hedgehog
Wasn't even informative enough come on ffs also releases adrenaline that's the main cause of anxiety!!
Yes, adrenaline is definitely an important hormone involved, and one that gets released in an FFF response and causes the increase in sympathetic activation. Every emotional response has a behavioral component, an autonomic component, and a hormonal component. At the same time, adrenaline also plays a part when we feel excited, elated, nervous, focused etc. It also releases as a result of exercise. The most important message in this video is to show how a big part of how to tackle anxiety is to understand the connection between how we interpret situations (our thinking and earlier experiences), will affect how we feel and how our body react. Then learn how to better regulate the activation. Top-down methods by using our rational mind to calm down the amygdala, or bottom up by regulating the stress in our body through calming down the sympathetic- and increasing the parasympathetic nervous system through breathing exercises etc.
Tankeboksen tell me this then, why would our brain say fight, why flight and why freeze, I'm interested
Hi Dan. Thank you for your question. It is hard to give you a short answer, though. We assess situations and act to the best of our abilities. Fight or flight both involve sympathetic (SNS) activation and is our primary response where possible. Freeze is the most poorly understood response but involves inhibiting the SNS and increased parasympathetic activation. Freeze can also result in dissociation, common in people who experience trauma. Most theories see Freeze as our last resort that we use when we don't see a possible way out of the situation. If you are interested you can read more about it here:
www.psychologytoday.com/blog/evolution-the-self/201507/trauma-and-the-freeze-response-good-bad-or-both
Tankeboksen thanks
How does amygdala effect hgh? Production like say if u still had normal hormone levels would it still effect height growth in long un if put i night or flight
There is a 4th option: float? Or would that be freeze? You can either fight the waves as they push and pull, or just float and let the current carry you through life.
Hi Shae, my belief is that "freeze" is the kind of thing that happens when you are overwhelmed with fear. e.g. a person who was attacked by a lion went totally limp. The effect of that is that the lion doesn't see him/her as a living creature to toy with and is thus less likely to injure him/her. You see it with mice who "play dead" when a cat is nearby, instinctively making themselves less interesting to the cat. You could say that depression is a kind of freeze response because people become depressed when none of their usual coping strategies work so they just kind of give up. I think of "float" as representing the idea of living in a switched off dream. People who feel overwhelmed by the demands of life may go along on automatic pilot. They are not really experiencing their life but just drifting through it, responding as little as possible. I think it is an instinctive energy-saving strategy in a situation that may be too volatile or too complex for them to be able to participate well.
Very educational- will share with clients 🎉thank you
I love that hedgehog and fox
Before I went to sleep I took off my coat and put it on a box in my room so I wouldn't forget it I woke up and I almost gave myself a heart attack
weird because when I'm not in danger and I go to the principal’s office, my fff is immediately triggered...
Am I right to guess that you once upon a time did something you shouldn't have, and was sent to the principal's office to talk it through? have a look at this explanation of classical conditioning ;) www.verywellmind.com/classical-conditioning-2794859
That sensation...it's irreplacable, i defently want that pure istinct if i want to survived in an Extreme situation. All this changes in our body...when you feel scaree, Remember what Is happening insider of you and Gain and advantage.
Practicing stillness helps with reactive impulses when confronting a non threatening situations. Awareness to subjects .
How I wake people , I just do it. ⏰ Fearless
Practicing starved eggman
What could be a practical way of coping with this experience, on a daily basis. Ps: thank you for such great explanation
A big part of how to tackle FFF activations is to understand the connection between how we interpret situations (our thinking and earlier experiences), affect how we feel and how our body react. Then learn how to better regulate the activation. Top-down methods by using our rational mind to calm down the amygdala by for example using selective attentional training exercises and challenging your interpretations in the situation, or bottom up by regulating the stress in our body through calming down the sympathetic- and increasing the parasympathetic nervous system through relaxation and breathing exercises, mindfulness etc. Thank you also for your positive feedback. When FFF alarm goes off our rational mind will look for a rational explanation to why we feel that way. Even when the fear we feel stem from misinterpretations of safe situations that stem from decisions made in the more primitive parts of our brain. If it is a regular occurrence, it might be good to talk to someone and learn more about why it occurs so often for you.
Jessica Castillo used mindfulness and it did nothing other than make me even more aware of this activation , it very overrated thing. The only thing that has worked is do nothing and not react. Best method by far . All the others I tried for years are useless. Mediation being probably the worst of them all.
Braive I hate how mediation is thrown at everything as if it a patch to solve endless problems when really it’s a money making marketing thing sold when it’s pretty useless overall. Most people are already aware of there states of mind and emotions. Why would they need to be even more aware? Again it’s used by snake oil people to make money. If eating dog shit had any benefits you would guarantee the self help market would be selling books by the millions, dog shit cures cancer, free your self from your depression with dog shit!!!!!!!
The music is the same for the minecraft trailer