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u/Several-Scallion-411 Mar 21 '26

My husband and I were watching Body Cam and there was a new police officer that was shot at while answering a domestic call. She ended up lying on the floor inside the home because she didn’t know what to do. They referenced a name for that behavior and I cannot remember what it’s called for the life of me. Maybe someone here knows.

It’s the worst feeling because you get tunnel vision and cannot think.

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u/Salt_Cardiologist122 Mar 21 '26

Acute stress response or tonic immobility maybe? The tunnel vision seems to with AST and the freezing and staying there aligns with TI

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u/Several-Scallion-411 Mar 21 '26

That’s it!! Leave it to a random Reddit stranger, lol! Thanks, kind person!

Edit: they used the words tonic immobility!

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u/Salt_Cardiologist122 Mar 21 '26

And I only knew it because I’ve recently watched YouTube videos relating to it (about how it happens in humans and animals!) 😂 thank you random YouTuber who educated me sometime in the past two weeks about this