Fight or flight updated: fight, flight, **freeze** Freeze response is not as familiar, but may be extremely common trauma response. Also called "tonic immobility." May be related to activity of cerebellum. Seems to be only partially understood. https://t.
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Tonic immobility (TI) is an involuntary reflexive reaction triggered by the perception of inescapable danger, characterized by reversible profound motor inhibition and relative unresponsiveness to external stimuli. (for the guy screaming "SOURCE") https
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RT @FrontPsychol: New Research: Tonic Immobility in PTSD: Exacerbation of Emotional Cardiac Defense Response https://t.co/NHRseQdEb1 #Psych…