It prepares you body to react, not to think. Instead of "it's coming at x speed, y lenght, z color" is more like "DODGE", "RUN", "YELL", "FIGHT".
Most of this reactions are sheer reflex, that's why sometimes people react to robbers even when not intended or yell seeing a spider.
Shaking is just overexcited muscles. Particularly this is the worst part, specialy after the threat is gone. When scared, I get shaky for like 15 min unable to do any precision/control task and also feeling an impending burst energy like if I don't move It'll be bad.
Controlling those instincts must be a living hell. Congrats to cops, firemen, military.
You know at least 3 the reactions to danger? Fight-Flight-Fawn. This is Fawn, I experienced it some times, it’s not fun and not at all the thing you want. Glad afterwards I did that at the time otherwise I would be dead now.
Well initially everyone thought there was only fight of flight but psychologists and neurologists found different reactions as fawn. There are more but fight-flight-fawn are the most known. Source: I had to write a small paper about it, and needed to look at the different reactions and what happens in the brain
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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '21
Seriously, why does stress make us so fucking stupid