Everyone has a natural stress response: fight, flight, freeze, or fawn Exposure to trauma can cause these responses to appear when they're not necessary. Therapy and mindfulness can help manage an ...

Survivors of non-consensual sexual experiences need curated sex therapy for trauma responses and to create a new foundation ...

A new study has found that even if survivors’ physical and psychological scars have healed after experiencing trauma, their ...

Most people know the fight-or-flight response, a survival mechanism ... high-profile legal cases involving sexual assault, a third trauma response—freeze—where people simply remain still ...

Many of the simple daily tasks that feel impossible when your body is stuck in "fight-or-flight" mode are otherwise ...

a therapeutic approach that is aimed at helping the body to release trauma by addressing patterns of fight, flight or freeze. He looks to the animal kingdom to illustrate how trauma affects humans ...

I think you are so desensitized from trauma that you literally are frozen in fight or flight. One time in life, something happened, and you remained calm - and that worked for you, so you will ...

When your nervous system has been primed by trauma, you can overreact to perceived "dangers" that aren't life-threatening, like when your boss questions you or someone cuts in line in front of you.

Shaylee Mejia, 16, died of "blunt head trauma" 10 days after she was attacked in a fight at her high school Charna Flam is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023.