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The Fight Response on the Road AKA Road Rage

by Counseling and Wellness Center of PittsburghApril 24, 2023 fight flight freeze, fight response, flight or fight, freeze response, nervous system, nervous system regulation, road rage, stress responses, sympathetic nervous system0 comments
Welcome back to our stress responses series; what they are and how they manifest in different contexts. So far, we’ve explored the different stages of the freeze response: Freeze in a survival scenario and Freeze during social threats, and in our last blog, you survived the ultimate cage fight with Michael Myers (you’ll have to go back and read that one if you are wondering how you...
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Fight or Flight? An Exploration of the Fight Response in a Horror Film

by Counseling and Wellness Center of PittsburghApril 19, 2023 fight flight freeze, flight or fight, freeze response, nervous system, nervous system regulation, stress responses, sympathetic nervous system0 comments
Welcome back to this series on the stress responses. Our hope is to untangle the web of confusion that has been spun surrounding these responses, and to demystify this innate human ability that we all possess and experience regularly. Our last two articles explored the freeze response—you learned how to recognize the differing stages of the freeze response in both Big T (catastrophic...
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