The Fight-Or Flight Response: Helpful Or Harmful?
People experience stress in their everyday lives, due to things like an overbearing workload, obstacles that are hard to overcome, difficult situations, and many more. The stress puts a person under immense pressure, and sometimes they underperform due to their nervousness. In other situations, however, the stress can be good for a person. The fight-or-flight response is a type of stress that can be either beneficial or harmful depending on the situation. The fight-or-flight response is important due to how it can benefit a person and how understanding it helps one negate its harmful effects. Fight-or-flight responses happen automatically in face of threats. True to its name, it helps prepare the body to either fight or flee the threat. As
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His body might go on high alert as his heart beat and respiration rate increase. When this response becomes severe, it may even lead to a panic attack. Understanding the body's natural fight-or-flight response is one way to help cope with such situations. When you notice that you are becoming tense, you can start looking for ways to calm down and relax your body. (Cherry 2)
This quote supports that understanding the fight-or-flight response will help a person calm themselves in situations where the response is activated inaccurately, such as when encountering something the person fears. Even though stress is viewed in a negative light, and certainly in many situations it does negatively affect a person, it can benefit a person as well. The flight-or-fight response is an example of a type of stress that can be positive, and it is important in helping someone perform well or survive a threatening situations. This response greatly affects a person’s behavior, therefore it can be harmful when the response is triggered by something imaginary. The flight-or-fight response is beneficial as an automatic response to danger, however, it should be understood for one to remain calm when the response
His body might go on high alert as his heart beat and respiration rate increase. When this response becomes severe, it may even lead to a panic attack. Understanding the body's natural fight-or-flight response is one way to help cope with such situations. When you notice that you are becoming tense, you can start looking for ways to calm down and relax your body. (Cherry 2)
This quote supports that understanding the fight-or-flight response will help a person calm themselves in situations where the response is activated inaccurately, such as when encountering something the person fears. Even though stress is viewed in a negative light, and certainly in many situations it does negatively affect a person, it can benefit a person as well. The flight-or-fight response is an example of a type of stress that can be positive, and it is important in helping someone perform well or survive a threatening situations. This response greatly affects a person’s behavior, therefore it can be harmful when the response is triggered by something imaginary. The flight-or-fight response is beneficial as an automatic response to danger, however, it should be understood for one to remain calm when the response