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Schawn Austin | Healing History Counseling

Freeze – A Danger Response

January 26, 2018 by Schawn Austin Leave a Comment

"Why didn't I fight back?" "Why didn't I try to get away or scream?" These are often the questions that survivors of assault and abuse will torture themselves with after they have survived. They may hate that they didn't do ANYTHING or feel that somehow it means they were to blame. The truth is that their mind had most likely chosen the Freeze danger response as their best chance to survive. Some part of their mind, probably the part that most deeply wants to keep living, has determined (correctly or not) that they can't fight their way out, they can't run fast enough to get away, and that there would be no talking their way out of this. So their mind chose the Freeze response as their best option for survival. Later they may believe they had other options, but in that moment a part of them made the best choice it could.

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