The article explores common coping mechanisms individuals use to deal with trauma, identifying three primary behaviors: hyper-reactive defensiveness, withdrawal, and emotional detachment. Beyond these, it introduces a lesser-known 'fawn' response where individuals excessively please others to attain a sense of safety. The piece underscores the complexity of trauma responses and the limits of assumptions, emphasizing that true understanding comes only when individuals choose to share their experiences and truths.
They usually fall into one of these three: Hyper-reactive and defensive, withdrawn and distant, or chill to the point of detachment.
This is actually completely true, on a psychological level. What you just described are the three most common coping mechanisms/defense mechanisms of a person who's facing trauma.
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