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The Flight or Fight or Freeze Response

is a human response when confronted with events perceived as threatening
is an offensive action brought about with purpose and premeditation
are events that cause eustress
is the opposite of the placebo effect

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The fight or flight response is a “response to an acute threat to survival that is marked by physical changes, including nervous and endocrine changes, that prepare a human or an animal to react or to retreat” (Britannica, 2019). In other words, it is what our body does when encountering a threat. Below, we will discuss what sorts of threats this phenomenon is triggered by, the specific nervous and endocrine changes referred to in this definition, and how the term “fight or flight” is an oversimplification.