Highly Sensitive Families with Natalie Brunswick
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Is Anxiety a Response to a Perceived Threat?
I imagine also sometimes clinicians, parents may also assume that that fight or flight response is anxiety because it is physiologically expressed in the same way. But if we think about anxiety as a response to a perceived threat that's not real, let's say, that is maybe not the right interpretation of that elevated nervous system response. I mean, I think what we'll see in the really young kids and the babies is that yeah, it's not, it'snot anxiety. This is like a fear response. That's when my four year old, you know, there's a loud noise that goes off and he has a meltdown. And so now I have all of this baggage that I've
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