BI spoke with 14 Americans about how they're navigating economic uncertainty. Most reactions fit into three categories: fight ...

Many of the simple daily tasks that feel impossible when your body is stuck in "fight-or-flight" mode are otherwise ...

context and perception. Experts argue that if we changed our perception of stress, we would deal with it better and maybe even use it to help us develop. The body’s response to stress is ...

When we experience trauma, our nervous system can become dysregulated, either leading to a constant state of fight-or-flight or freeze response. This dysregulation can make the body hypersensitive ...

Many of us learned about the human body's stress reaction to danger in college if not high school: fight, flight, freeze and fawn. A small but mighty group of Ohio State University students and ...

“Conflict feels risky because our brains are naturally programmed and wired to treat it as a potential threat, triggering fight, flight ... and notice your body’s response.

During this period of cultural chaos, the most important thing we can do for ourselves and each other is to avoid the autonomic nervous system's freeze ... for the fight or flight response to ...

I feel them in my own body in response to the abrupt changes ... The amygdala signals our autonomic nervous system to prepare for fight, flight, or freeze. Our heart rate increases, our digestion ...