Poll of the Day > Your "fight-or-flight" response?

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Depends on the odds.

I tend towards fight unless it seems like a situation I can't possibly win against, in which case flight kicks in.

But I tend to be conflict-avoidant in non-crisis situations. But more in an "ignore" sense rather than an "avoid" sense.

So my response tend to wobble back and forth depending on how I'm processing the situation.

I usually end up at a casino. Trigger events.

In true fight-or-flight situations where I've had no time to think or analyze, my instinct has always been to run, if only even to make physical space to properly assess.

I know this because it's been triggered several times by flying cockroaches.

Do you live in Afghanistan or something?

My fight or flight response is modem noises. One time a bunch of angry dogs jumped the fence and ran at me and I just looked at them and walked away. In elementary school a kid ran up to me and punched me because I was destroying him in dodgeball and I just looked at him, then he stormed off. When I play video games with friends or by myself I have no reaction to any danger and I usually die first. If I'm playing Rust and get attacked I just stand there and guilt trip the attacker for killing me while I die.

I vaguely remember someone threatening me at one point and I didn't reciprocate it at all, and they just got frustrated and told me to gtfo of there.

I run, but not very far. I'm not very fit. So typically I switch to fight very quickly. I'm not able to run but I'm very tall, very heavy, and decently strong. Short of a knife or gun or bear not much is a significant threat.

I tend to blank out and freeze, but if I don't, my response is flight.

To be honest, I don't really get "scared" much. Haven't in a long time. I have been described by my friends as "having a death wish". Like probably one of my scariest moments was someone tried to rob me (or at least I think he did) and my response was basically to just give him a "get the fuck outta here..." and walk away. Like if someone points a gun at me I would probably look at them deadpan and be like "Just get out of my face, idiot!"

Whichever I feel has better odds. Thats usually fighting, especially as I get older.

Yellow posted...

Do you live in Afghanistan or something?

My fight or flight response is modem noises. One time a bunch of angry dogs jumped the fence and ran at me and I just looked at them and walked away. In elementary school a kid ran up to me and punched me because I was destroying him in dodgeball and I just looked at him, then he stormed off. When I play video games with friends or by myself I have no reaction to any danger and I usually die first. If I'm playing Rust and get attacked I just stand there and guilt trip the attacker for killing me while I die.

I vaguely remember someone threatening me at one point and I didn't reciprocate it at all, and they just got frustrated and told me to gtfo of there.

No, but I do have several phobias and am easily sensitive to stimuli.

It's good that seemingly nothing rattles you.

Fight-Freeze; I assume a defensive position and then lock up

Other: Gun or bear mace

Freeze mostly. I have a fear of height so that kicks in there and I also have anxiety issues although with those I get the shakes or have a full blown panic attacks depending the situation.

Many people like to claim their response is "Fight" because it sounds cooler and "Flight" sounds cowardly but from my experience a pretty small amount amount of people actually have the automated reflex to attack things in a situation that triggers the "fight-or-flight" response rather than retreat or shrink away.

And I do mean, your automated reflex when you sense danger, not you thinking about it a bit and deciding you rather fight than run.

Given, you can train to change your fight-or-flight response to default to fight rather then flight, but very few people do this outside of combat training.

My freeze response is fucking overwhelming. It of course showed up a lot more as a kid, but as an adult I've still been in situations where I can't move at all as long as I percieve the threat to still be real.

It's crazy that having a kid and sensing they are in danger too overrides this automatically though.

(I live in a mountain lion area)

I freeze, unless it's a spider

I'm not much of a fighter but I won't run. And I will defend myself.

I mostly freeze which is really awesome and safe and helpful

1. Flight
2. Prepare
3. Return and fight now that it's a guaranteed win.

Freeze.