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Originally Posted by Open Eyes
I think it is important to realize that "most" people use the 4 F's to some degree.
However, when someone has PTSD or complex PTSD, they are much more "sensitive" so that will mean that average reactions are much more "magnified" with PTSD.
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Oh totally. My flight response is massive - I'm always busy. As soon as I get upset, I get busy with something. It's pretty much go go go in my life.
When I'm depressed and Flight/Freeze - I can pretty much guarantee that when I'm depressed there is ZERO fight response and any Fawn response is minimal because I think that it won't matter what I do, that I'll still be a piece of crap. But the Freeze will come into play when I run out of energy to keep busy - in which case, I will get lost in book or writing a story or watching a tv series.
When I'm hypomanic and Flight/Fight: I don't have the attention span to read or watch movies and am far too physically agitated to focus on things like that. I'll be mostly super extremely busy and productive... but if I somehow get trapped into a situation that is not good? Hello Fight Response! (This rarely happens, so I can say I rarely ever react with any semblance of a fight response... but when I do watch out cause it's huge).
When I'm baseline and Flight/Fawn: I'll be go go and go, but I usually find it easier to comply with what other people are wanting all the time, because then I hope that that will avoid it. so again, I'm keeping myself as busy as I can but if I am interacting and someone else pushes a need towards me... I'll do my best to fill it and hopefully can get it over and done with and get out of there.
But in each phase... there's really only ever 2 and it's primarily Flight. And it's constant and I'm very rarely have any time where I'm NOT acting in one mode or another.