Loaded Gun, Epinephrine, Trigger Response, Adrenaline, Smoking Barrel
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Epinephrine – a hormone triggered during the Fight-or-Flight-Response to a threat. Adrenaline – another name for Epinephrine.
Elevated heart rate, clear mind, every muscle is ready. It only takes a few words.
Words.
Part of the beauty of psychology is its revealing nature. Eventually, the cracks in one’s bullet proof vest are discovered. Hidden secrets, suppressed trauma can only stay protected for so long – and once a bullet makes it past our shields and armor, its full-on psychological warfare.
A few words and your mind and/or body experience danger. It’s a trigger. Your trigger. You control it as best you can. You wear your armor. Your walls are thick but sometimes you are caught off guard. And then you realize you can’t escape your past.
Once a victim, always in fear.
Great post. Absolutely love it. Every word of it.
As for me, I don’t go for fight or flight. I tend to go for the third “F’… “Freeze”.
If I stay very still, maybe my threat won’t see me as a threat and will leave me be.