Page 21 - SECTION B Part 6b - Brain Stress Flipbook

Sense of Danger

Begins to mobilise as the sense of danger increases:

Find/Flock:
Looks to the group / attachment figure/s for comfort or protection

▪ Clingy with attachment figure / protests against separation

▪ Flocks / drawn towards peer group

Fawn:

Tries to appease to avoid conflict & decrease chance of harm/rejection
▪ Reasons, complies, placates, peacekeeping

▪ Caretaking, co-dependency

Flight:

▪ Wary, nervous, anxious, panics
▪ Avoids, ignores

▪ Fidgets, moves away, stomps, runs away

▪ Self-soothing or stimulating obsessive

compulsive behaviours, and addictions
Fight:

▪ Irritability, frustration, anger, rage, resistance,

intimidating, aggression, defending, protecting.