You may already be familiar with the fight or flight response – a simplified term for how humans and many other animals respond to threat. However, you may be less familiar with how this natural response becomes less helpful when activated too regularly. Below, we will discuss how the fight or flight response is an evolutionary adaptation that helps us deal with immediate threats, but that is not as well-suited to present-day chronic stressors. This is per Well-Being Institute at Berkeley, see Sarah Sperber and Reviewed by Tchiki Davis, MA, PhD so it’s a “thing” after all these years.
I first heard about “fight or flight” response via my social studies course at Bellaire High School. When you are young this type of choice depends on a lot of things. For me, at Bellaire, whole groups of kids were choosing flight by suicide. From a metaphysical point, many chose flight by walking home to escape the bus bully, avoiding trouble by spending time at the library at lunchtime and/or getting an after-school job so you didn’t have to deal with the parental units except in passing. That was the version of metaphysical flight that many choose as they know this existence is to trap you. How?
Make you blindly defend yourself and possibly harm someone innocent body and soul.
For some of us fight equals murder. So we choose flight. To choose flight is our fight. We fight against something much more ominous than any enemy can be.
It’s the “enemy” within.
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