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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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