The body’s response to stress is designed to be protective.
In the most primitive of circumstances when an individual experiences imminent fear or danger the immediate physiological response that is elicited allows us to either run or defend ourselves against threat – you will know this as the fight/flight response. In some situations with some people a freeze response might also occur.
Over our lifetime -and with influence of our particular life narrative – many events and circumstances can begin to trigger the stress response – even those that we might tell ourselves in our head don’t warrant it. In fact even telling ourselves that might trigger the stress response!
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