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Mobilisation

The body begins to mobilise as the sense of danger increases:

Fight:

Fight is about protection of self from an external stressor – ways of keeping the

stressor at bay. It can take different forms:

▪ Irritability, frustration, anger, rage, aggression, intimidation
presented as shouting, screaming, punching, pinching,

kicking, biting, pushing etc.

▪ Resistance, refusal

▪ Defending, protecting

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