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#98: A Beginner’s Guide to Trauma Responses

It's Not Just In Your Head

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Is the Fight a Negative Thing?

In a forest fire, the fox runs right next to the rabbit because every other system is shut down. When people are in trouble, sometimes that takes over too. A woman who wanted to rescue her child was tackled by police and then went back into the building with her two kids. That was a real fight response. She was going to fight for her kids, and she did so. You could be both a fight or flight person, depending on the people you know.

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