Stress Responses
Detaching emotionally from the situation to avoid dealing with painful feelings or stress.
Freeze - Emotional Numbing
This response is all about avoiding the threat. When faced with stress or danger
Flight
Intimidating others with prolonged eye contact to establish dominance in a confrontation.
Fight - Staring down
You watch a kid get up from his desk and get into the teachers personal space using domineering body language
Physical Posturing - Fight
● Increased heart rate, ● clenched fists ● tight jaw, ● feeling hot or flushed
Delaying or putting o tasks to avoid dealing with the stress they cause.
Flight - Procrastination
shutting down to avoid conflict or stress
Freeze
Going out of your way to keep others happy, often at your own expense.
Fawn - People pleasing
Asking to use the restroom at the beginning of every math period.
Flight - Avoidance
● Numbness, ● heavy limbs, shallow breathing, ● feeling 'frozen' or stuck
Freeze
Quickly trying to fix or downplay problems instead of addressing underlying issues.
Fawn - Smoothing Over Problems
how people might react aggressively or defensively in stressful situations.
Fight
This involves actions or words meant to harm someone else, often as a way of asserting control.
Fight - aggression
Your friends are reaching out to hangout but you lie and say your busy when you just want to hangout in your room by yourself
Freeze - emotional numbing, withdrawal
● Heart pounding, ● rapid breathing, ● muscle tension, ● feeling the need to move or run away
Flight
Pointing out faults in others aggressively, which can be a defense mechanism to shift focus away from oneself.
Fight - criticizing
react in a way that overly pleases others to avoid conflict or stress.
Fawn
Using other things to escape feelings or realities of stress.
Flight
"It's your time to give your presentation in front of the class. You get nervous and tell the teacher you left your report at home."
Flight
List five Calming Srategies
- deep breathing - Art
- talking about it - mindfulness meditation
- muscle relaxation - Physical exercise
- music - Journaling
Feeling completely overwhelmed to the point of being stuck, unable to decide how to react.
Freeze - Overwhelm
Fight, Flight, Freeze, or Fawn are all?
Stress Responses
Physically leaving or attempting to leave a situation to escape stress.
Flight - Running away
you let your friend borrow your favorite sweatshirt even though you didn't want to because they are messy and stain their clothes
Fawn - yielding
● Nausea, dizziness, ● a 'lump' in the throat, ● excessive sweating
Fawn