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Learning to Play Well with Others: The PTSD Survival Guide

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder leaves a person feeling unsafe and out of control. He has faced an unexpected event and his choices have been taken away. Regaining the sense of security and self-empowerment is a vital step in helping these injured workers recover. 

Trauma and the Freeze Response

We often hear that our bodies are poised to adopt a ‘fight’ or ‘flight’ response to danger; we choose to protect ourselves either by taking action against the threating person or situation, or get the heck away from it.  

Less discussed is the ‘freeze’ response. The term, playing possum is a form of the freeze reaction. When neither fight or flight is an option, our bodies may become immobile.  

Whatever action someone takes when faced with a treat — fight, flight or freeze — depends on a slew of factors. But each of us is different and we have different responses. Interviews with airline passengers who believed the plane was going to crash show all three types of reactions. Those who ‘freeze’ may literally faint and recall nothing of the event.

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