How does the dx affect us?
Trauma and Adrenaline Responses Fight, Flight, Freeze, Fawn, Flop, Fib, Funster Do you know your kids responses? We all know fight, flight, and freeze. Some have probably heard of flop/faint (possum playing dead) and fawn/friendly (dog showing belly) as secondary responses. Do you know about the other secondary social human responses we see in responses that are present in humans that aren't found in nature? This adds Fib and Funster to the list. The class clown, jokester, and pranksters and the ones that sneak, steal, and lie are also often operating from a place of adrenaline and survival instincts. All of it is about self-preservation. (There is one more F. That is fright mode. That's reacting to things that aren't even real threats because you have operated in that trauma place too long. The always be expecting a bear attack lurking just around the corner.) Understanding, what lies behind the behavior often tells you much about how to deal with it. Moms are often in fig...