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The fawn response is a type of people-pleasing behavior present in stressful circumstances or triggered by situations ...

Chronic pain can result from nervous-system overload that creates physical symptoms in response to repressed emotions, therapist Nicole Sachs says.

This can trigger our fight-flight-freeze-fawn-fester responses, making us either overly aggressive, avoidant, or stuck in rumination. From a Darwinian perspective, these five responses could have ...

Where medication, physical therapy, supplements ... The nervous system switches into fight, flight, freeze or fawn mode. When your emotional “reservoir” becomes overwhelmed, your brain ...

Crowe broke the choices down into fight, flight, freeze or fawn. Each of these has a healthy and unhealthy version. For fight, a person could be more aggressive or more assertive. For flight ...