Coping with Anxiety: Fight or Flight Response
Normal anxiety is temporary and relates to a specific trigger or situation, like an exam or job interview or an unexpected loud noise. Typically the anxiety and the chemicals released within the body dissipate when the source of anxiety is removed or resolved. This reaction can propel us as individuals into action via what is known as the fight flight response. An evolutionary reaction that increases our chance of survival in threatening situations by activating hormones and neurotransmitters, creating physiological changes ie increase in heart rate, breathing and blood pressure with increased blood flow to the muscles, that ultimately facilitates more strenuous activity than normal.
Normal anxiety is temporary and relates to a specific trigger or situation, like an exam or job interview or an unexpected loud noise. Typically the anxiety and the chemicals released within the body dissipate when the source of anxiety is removed or resolved. This reaction can propel us as individuals into action via what is known as the fight flight response. An evolutionary reaction that increases our chance of survival in threatening situations by activating hormones and neurotransmitters, creating physiological changes ie increase in heart rate, breathing and blood pressure with increased blood flow to the muscles, that ultimately facilitates more strenuous activity than normal.
Normal anxiety is temporary and relates to a specific trigger or situation, like an exam or job interview or an unexpected loud noise. Typically the anxiety and the chemicals released within the body dissipate when the source of anxiety is removed or resolved. This reaction can propel us as individuals into action via what is known as the fight flight response. An evolutionary reaction that increases our chance of survival in threatening situations by activating hormones and neurotransmitters, creating physiological changes ie increase in heart rate, breathing and blood pressure with increased blood flow to the muscles, that ultimately facilitates more strenuous activity than normal.