The article explores how the body's threat system activates essential survival responses, such as fight, flight, freeze, or fawn, when danger is detected. The sympathetic nervous system plays a critical role in this activation. Those who have experienced trauma often exhibit exaggerated responses, such as heightened hypervigilance and increased startle responses, indicating an overactive threat system. This can lead to significant physiological changes, such as elevated heart rates, even after the initial threat is gone, revealing the long-lasting effects of trauma on the nervous system.
The threat system is essential for our survival, activating responses such as fight, flight, freeze, or fawn when danger is detected.
Traumatic experiences can cause individuals to have a heightened sympathetic response, leading to increased hypervigilance even after the original threat has subsided.
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