FFF - Fight Flight Freeze Flashcards
What is the role of cortisol in FFF?
floods body with glucose, supplying energy to muscles
a stress hormone that activates persons ability to deal with threatening situations
What does prolonged cortisol do?
increases risk of high blood pressure and illnesses
gets rid of unnecessary functions that don’t apply to the FFF?
What happens in the Flight stage?
a person will run away from danger
What happens in the Fight stage?
A person will attack the threat
What happens in the Freeze stage?
A person will go completely still
mostly don’t know what to do next
What is the FFF response?
a persons rapid, automatic, biological danger response
activated by sympathetic NS
adrenaline and cortisol involved
What does the sympathetic NS do when activated?
releases cortisol, adrenaline and noradrenaline into bloodstream
Pupils dilate
heart beat fastens
bladder loosens
breathing fastens
decreases salvation/digestion
What happens when someone starts to calm down?
Parasympathetic NS takes over
its goal is to return to homeostasis (normal functioning levels)
breathing/heartrate return to normal
digestion and bladder functions again
What is the process that gets your body back to normal called?
Allostasis
activated by parasympathetic NS
is FFF sympathetic or parasympathetic?
Fight and flight are sympathetic
Freeze is parasympathetic
