Fight, Flight, Freeze: The Alarm That Goes Off Before You Do
Show notes
Your body decides you're in danger long before your conscious mind catches up — and that gap is where most of us start blaming ourselves. David Watts walks through the mechanism of the threat response, from the amygdala's crude smoke-detector logic to the four states of fight, flight, freeze and fawn, and why your clever prefrontal cortex steps offline at exactly the wrong moment. Plus the unglamorous first move — affect labelling — and the research from UCLA that shows why simply naming the state does something measurable in the brain.
Read the full article on Quantum Self Development: https://quantumselfdevelopment.com/articles/fight-flight-freeze-response/
This episode was narrated by an AI clone of my own voice, trained on this show.
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