I froze sometimes. I didn't freeze sometime. Freezing times gave me more trauma that was harder to unload. So...I had to fight and when I had to fight I thought I could be beaten to death. It was not an unrealistic fear. But because I fought this trauma isnt nearly as bad as trauma from freezing when I saw someone else having an emergency, like stroke or night terrors.

I just want to say, that Its not what we did or didn't do or what happened to us that gives us ptsd. Its the way our bodies respond.

A police officer and martial artist told me that cardiovascular conditioning and trained responses prevent us from freezing in trauma. We can make ourselves resilient.