Fight or Flight Reactions

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Summary: Learn about fight or flight reactions and how to overcome stress and anxiety in this free home health video.

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Allan Rabinowitz, MFT Allan Rabinowitz is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, who specializes in stress management, behavior modification, anxiety and phobia reduction & perf... read more

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Fight or Flight Reactions

Our bodies have survived the saber tooth tiger outside our cave. If we didn’t survive it then we don’t have to continue our discussion. But let’s say we’ve survived, we can, we’ve run fast enough, we’ve been able to defend ourselves, we go to a save place or make the situation safer and then we can relax again. We can go back to normal and in these kinds of situations we’re all cave people. Our body would very quickly return to normal, our pulse rate would reduce, our blood pressure would normalize, our muscles would relax. Now we might remember what happened but we would know the saber tooth tiger is gone. That’s how stress is good for us, because it can save our lives. But what happens if it’s not really a saber tooth tiger that’s outside the opening to our den? And let’s look at modern times. Our den is our room; my office here is my den. If there was a saber tooth tiger outside that door my body and my mind would be doing all of the things that we just talked about. Suppose what’s outside the door is another kind of a problem. Suppose it’s someone saying, in this case it’s someone saying "Duh, I’m sorry you’re gonna have to move your car because they are repainting the parking lot" in short notice. Now that’s another kind of problem, I was going to do some other things, why do I have to run down there, move my car, worry about where to park and all kinds of things are now "dangerous" because they interfere with my life, represent a problem I have to solve. We’re gonna spend some time talking about how these things appear in our lives, how they can cause the same kind of reaction as if they were really saber tooth tigers. And then we get into trouble with stress.