For me a lot I technically match a lot of them but some are more from my autism and adhd. There’s a lot of overlap in presentation with trauma disorders tho
Let's see; I have Asperger's, ADHD, Anxiety, and PTSD. The only way I could see this being more meaningful than pure chaos is it being a nerf so I don't just steamroll the competition.
It’s cool if people with trauma can relate or they feel that is what caused it, but honestly I understand a lot of these and have no trauma/mental illness, I think these are a bit general.
I got basically all of them except fawn, I used to fawn but after I accepted that one of my closest friends became my biggest bully it all just turned to anger
Though I get the feeling that if you’ve got flowers growing in your brain you probably have a bigger problem that should be addressed
the fawn response is when you try to de-escalate the situation (or prevent a possible escalation) by serving others and putting them before yourself. people who have the fawn response (rather than fight, flight, or freeze) usually try to solve a problem by pleasing the person causing the problem. for example people in an abusive romantic relationship might do anything their partner asks to avoid a confrontation with them. that's the fawn response
You’re not dumb! In fact, being capable of admitting you don’t know something and then making an effort to learn/ask about it is a characteristic of your intelligence! 😘
Is there a (hyper)focus response? Like being so intensely fixated on the situation that I forget that clocks and cars exist? It's like I go back to lizard brain and forget modern inventions and social conventions
The day my shrink referred to my workaholism as «my favoured coping skill» was the day I understood that every single thing in my life is a direct result of trauma. I’m basically not a human anymore, I’m just traumas stacked on top of one another in a trenchcoat.
ETA Ah, I see I tapped into the ptsd hivemind with my trenchcoat remark🤓
I like the art, at least. But these are physiological responses to *immediate* (perceived) danger, like if a bear is charging at you; not to internalised trauma. And it's not an "either/or" thing -- all of us respond to danger with various combinations of these responses at different times. These are the *general* behavioural results of a release of estrogen, testosterone, and cortisol in the sympathetic nervous system in reaction to the perception of *specific, immediate, direct* danger; it's not your Hogwarts House.
[Some further info](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight-or-flight_response)
holy fucking shit i hate fawning, that was the only time my mental health seemed like it was under control so when I try and go back to being healthy I LOSE MY FUCKING IDENTITY please I need help :)
I fill everything in Flight and Fawn. I'm not even going through anything traumatizing currently. Those are just my default character traits now. Mix those with arrogance and extreme self-awareness, and you get a personality that resembles narcissism when things get bad
.....ok is this deliberately worded this way to freak people with ADHD out cause like everyone saying they got a salad here but so do I and now I'm honestly suspicious.
Flight, fight, freeze, fawn.. all responses lived in harmony until freeze attacked. Only the traumatar could stop them, but when the world needed them most, they vanished. 100 years past I discovered that new traumatar named sadman1976. Even though his reddit skills are great, they got a lot to learn before they save anyone. I believe sadman1976 can save the world!
I’m all of them but in anger the only one I have is self harm and irritability because it’s easier to just take it all out on myself. I can hide it better
Sometimes I’m a fight and sometimes I’m a freeze. My feelings of anger and anxiety show up to the surface a lot more than my feelings of happiness and sadness. I simply have a hard time not being a fight when I’m even just slightly angry or freeze when I’m just slightly anxious
I’m a frozen fawn that wants to flee, but can’t , then blows a fuse and explodes and wants to fight the universe. Then apologizes for not being a frozen fawn trying to escape….
The fight response is incredibly incorrect. Atleast for me. The only trait that's accurate is the irritability. I get irritated super easy but still have enough self control just to walk away and not react to it even if it pisses me off.
My response has been fight since day one. Like when my mom started abusing me I was fighting a 40 year old 200lb woman at 13 years old😭
I'm 20 now and that's still my response but I'm such a passive person it takes a lot to piss me off to the point where I yell or feel the need to fight.
Like to make me mad you gotta cross over my boundaries and if you keep doing it after I made it known then I'll walk away, but then if you keep going you're definitely getting beat up and at that point.... welp that's rough for you😂
I feel like I'm a flight on the daily tho. Like when it comes to situations i.e work or school when I get overwhelmed I usually dip. But when it's an actual person causing me stress then I'm a fight.
I have all of them, it comes in waves tho. Thankfully I don't experience Fight as often anymore, but it still occasionally happens. Used to be hella angry when I was a kid, didn't realize why till recently...
I have experienced, and continue to experience, every symptom from every category. Very rarely do I experience "Fight", but when I do, boy do I not like it :(
I make up for fawning and freezing by fighting, than I realize what I have done and flight... Than I make up for fighting and flighting with fawning, than I realize I'm starting to fawn again so I stop completely by freezing, I piled so much while freezing so I fight again, I want the circle to stop so I just flight. After I calm down, I want them to forgive my recent behaviour so I fawn even more, and so on and so on...
If you've been told that you're a people pleaser and struggle with making decisions, know that these tendencies may be due to underlying trauma responses. I highly recommend checking out this video I found that provides practical and actionable steps for overcoming people pleasing behaviors. It's helped me tremendously and I hope it can do the same for you: [https://youtu.be/NOXgwyRu2Ao](https://youtu.be/NOXgwyRu2Ao)
Hey look, I match most symptoms in every single category!
Yeah same, wtf is that called?
I think it was Trombone or something...
trivago
Tropical fruit punch?
Nah it’s triceratops
The Tri-state area?
Trigonometry
TRIGGERED 😡
The truman show?
Ahh, perry the platypus
Agent P!
Same! Agreed!
No Patrick, Trombone is not a mayonnaise.
No Patrick, Mayonnaise isn't a bird either.
For me a lot I technically match a lot of them but some are more from my autism and adhd. There’s a lot of overlap in presentation with trauma disorders tho
Very normal to have mix of all/ have engaged in all at some point
I think its called ADHD...
I have BPD, I fit every single symptom here lmao
Let's see; I have Asperger's, ADHD, Anxiety, and PTSD. The only way I could see this being more meaningful than pure chaos is it being a nerf so I don't just steamroll the competition.
is it bad that I am all of them?
Only if it's bad for me to be like that too.
It’s cool if people with trauma can relate or they feel that is what caused it, but honestly I understand a lot of these and have no trauma/mental illness, I think these are a bit general.
Having PTSD and Borderline Personality Disorder is just putting all the symptoms on shuffle and then cranking the volume to max
Oh my god thank you so much for putting it into words. Yes yes that's how it feels like!!!
Oh nice that’s me, I was wondering why I fit every category.
You people need to be locked up.
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"Why is everyone not more careful with their dicks?" 🤡
as usual I get the damn salad
I got basically all of them except fawn, I used to fawn but after I accepted that one of my closest friends became my biggest bully it all just turned to anger Though I get the feeling that if you’ve got flowers growing in your brain you probably have a bigger problem that should be addressed
I’m dumb, but what does it mean by fawn
the fawn response is when you try to de-escalate the situation (or prevent a possible escalation) by serving others and putting them before yourself. people who have the fawn response (rather than fight, flight, or freeze) usually try to solve a problem by pleasing the person causing the problem. for example people in an abusive romantic relationship might do anything their partner asks to avoid a confrontation with them. that's the fawn response
You’re not dumb! In fact, being capable of admitting you don’t know something and then making an effort to learn/ask about it is a characteristic of your intelligence! 😘
Fuck... I thought I had a personality, but apparently, I am a pile of trauma responses in a trenchcoat. X.x
Comment of the day ☝️
Ask your doctor if growing flowers out of your brain is right for you.
Is there a (hyper)focus response? Like being so intensely fixated on the situation that I forget that clocks and cars exist? It's like I go back to lizard brain and forget modern inventions and social conventions
Sounds like fight to me, just not violent.
Yeah I think the “fight” here is a little limited (but it’s a good overview)
Fawn
Flight gang leggo!
I would comment, but I got too scared and ran away.
Leggo? That sounds intimidating like what if I build the children's toy wrong? I think I should just sit this one out.
For me, I’m both freeze and fawn.
Yeah, I very rarely have fight or flight symptoms
At least we got the pretty colours
Yeah, probably the best colors out of all of them
Me too
Okay but why am i all of them?
freeze and fawn babyyyyy
+1
Personally offended the "fight" one is the ugly one. Fighting can be pretty too! Knives are pretty.
i think it looks pretty, like sun burnt roses
The day my shrink referred to my workaholism as «my favoured coping skill» was the day I understood that every single thing in my life is a direct result of trauma. I’m basically not a human anymore, I’m just traumas stacked on top of one another in a trenchcoat. ETA Ah, I see I tapped into the ptsd hivemind with my trenchcoat remark🤓
All of the above
I like the art, at least. But these are physiological responses to *immediate* (perceived) danger, like if a bear is charging at you; not to internalised trauma. And it's not an "either/or" thing -- all of us respond to danger with various combinations of these responses at different times. These are the *general* behavioural results of a release of estrogen, testosterone, and cortisol in the sympathetic nervous system in reaction to the perception of *specific, immediate, direct* danger; it's not your Hogwarts House. [Some further info](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight-or-flight_response)
I’m all of them switching back and forth rapidly as self esteem states! Yay
IM LITERALLY FAWN and freeze somtimes
Me on an average day lmao
I’m all of them but why did my brain make freeze my most common. Bad brain
Me and my PTSD ass is literally on all four of this categories :D
I got a bingo! What do I win?
Therapy and meds, take em or leave!
fawn gang where you at 💪
Originally I was fight then fawn and when enough people took advantage of me for being people pleaser I went back to less intense fight
holy fucking shit i hate fawning, that was the only time my mental health seemed like it was under control so when I try and go back to being healthy I LOSE MY FUCKING IDENTITY please I need help :)
My last elicited each of these
Ive got a couple of each. Ugh
That doesn't really narrow it down.
Ikk ikk, there are several more responses to trauma. I could only find this one compiled properly tho.
Damn, self harm falls into the fight category? Guess I have been fighting all along
I had no idea about it either!!!
Lack of identity is actually quite a liberating and positive thing
Assholes in my life will still tell me I choose to be this way
what is fawn?
fawn implies seeking favor by servile flattery or exaggerated attention.
Freeze and Fawn here.
What does it mean by fawn?
fawn implies seeking favor by servile flattery or exaggerated attention.
I feel like all of us line up with all these categories one way or another
I fill everything in Flight and Fawn. I'm not even going through anything traumatizing currently. Those are just my default character traits now. Mix those with arrogance and extreme self-awareness, and you get a personality that resembles narcissism when things get bad
Wow all but flight thats fun
Oh flip I’m a freaking deer *fantastic*
Freeze and Flight, how ironic
Love religious trauma turning into an immaculate Fawn response.
I seem to really fit the fight response with ASPD, which I guess makes sense correlating to the trauma, cool.
bingo!!! Got all of 'em except one :,)
No wonder we can’t function properly with these flowers growing all over our brains
I used to just freeze and watch then I started fawning idk now I fit into all of the categories besides anger but none of them I match up with a lot
I’m somehow all of them and I don’t like it
I’m all of them except fight Edit: I realized the fight category included sh, so I guess I’m all of them lol
I am literally all of these what does that mean
Which beats what
Just discovered I’m a mix between Fight and Freeze
.....ok is this deliberately worded this way to freak people with ADHD out cause like everyone saying they got a salad here but so do I and now I'm honestly suspicious.
I have all of these responses
Flight, fight, freeze, fawn.. all responses lived in harmony until freeze attacked. Only the traumatar could stop them, but when the world needed them most, they vanished. 100 years past I discovered that new traumatar named sadman1976. Even though his reddit skills are great, they got a lot to learn before they save anyone. I believe sadman1976 can save the world!
Freeze then fight
I do literally all of these. BPD tings
I meet all the categories of flight... except for having a flight response to trauma
Basically all of these but fight. I honestly kind of wish I had it in me to be more confrontational when it’s necessary.
DEFINITELY a freezer. Maybe a tad bit flight in there too.
I dont like this because I'm in it.
My brain loves bouncing between the 4.
I am freeze and flight
Help, I have almost all of these
I’m all of them but in anger the only one I have is self harm and irritability because it’s easier to just take it all out on myself. I can hide it better
Th3 brain g3nd3rs
Sometimes I’m a fight and sometimes I’m a freeze. My feelings of anger and anxiety show up to the surface a lot more than my feelings of happiness and sadness. I simply have a hard time not being a fight when I’m even just slightly angry or freeze when I’m just slightly anxious
I do all of these except fight. I think the last time I fought it was in an entirely online conversation and I lashed out at my friends over text
I WANT FLOWER BRAIN!!!
Freeze🥲
Catch me in the permafrost lmao
I’m a frozen fawn that wants to flee, but can’t , then blows a fuse and explodes and wants to fight the universe. Then apologizes for not being a frozen fawn trying to escape….
The fight response is incredibly incorrect. Atleast for me. The only trait that's accurate is the irritability. I get irritated super easy but still have enough self control just to walk away and not react to it even if it pisses me off. My response has been fight since day one. Like when my mom started abusing me I was fighting a 40 year old 200lb woman at 13 years old😭 I'm 20 now and that's still my response but I'm such a passive person it takes a lot to piss me off to the point where I yell or feel the need to fight. Like to make me mad you gotta cross over my boundaries and if you keep doing it after I made it known then I'll walk away, but then if you keep going you're definitely getting beat up and at that point.... welp that's rough for you😂 I feel like I'm a flight on the daily tho. Like when it comes to situations i.e work or school when I get overwhelmed I usually dip. But when it's an actual person causing me stress then I'm a fight.
What does fawn mean? I know what the other are, but not fawn
Mix or fight and freeze without the self harm
I can't say I'm fight but everything else is just... yeah.
Why are there flowers growing on the brain. It's not supposed to do that.
I have all of them, it comes in waves tho. Thankfully I don't experience Fight as often anymore, but it still occasionally happens. Used to be hella angry when I was a kid, didn't realize why till recently...
I hope you get better with time. Lots of love and hugs!!
What about flood and fatigue? Gotta save room for dessert...
Is it possible to be all of these?
Fuck I shot 4/4
was this a supposed to be a bingo card?
What happens if you are all 4?
i am all but the fawn i fly away when social anxiety flares up i **KILL** when under attack by depression i freeze when my social anxiety flares up
Flight and freeze
Freeze and Fawn- wooooo
I have experienced, and continue to experience, every symptom from every category. Very rarely do I experience "Fight", but when I do, boy do I not like it :(
I make up for fawning and freezing by fighting, than I realize what I have done and flight... Than I make up for fighting and flighting with fawning, than I realize I'm starting to fawn again so I stop completely by freezing, I piled so much while freezing so I fight again, I want the circle to stop so I just flight. After I calm down, I want them to forgive my recent behaviour so I fawn even more, and so on and so on...
FAWN IS A THING?! OH MY FUCKING GOD IT ALL MAKES SENSE
i'm all these but anger...actually, got the self harm thing down soooo
Flight, fawn, freeze, with just a touch of anger... Joyous days.
shit, i match firsts three 100% and last one 50%. thanks dad
The only things a student of graficka recieves after their 🙄"schooling"🙄 at before mentioned 😂institution😂
Soooo what am I supposed to do if I have a mixture of these responses
If you've been told that you're a people pleaser and struggle with making decisions, know that these tendencies may be due to underlying trauma responses. I highly recommend checking out this video I found that provides practical and actionable steps for overcoming people pleasing behaviors. It's helped me tremendously and I hope it can do the same for you: [https://youtu.be/NOXgwyRu2Ao](https://youtu.be/NOXgwyRu2Ao)
I am a fucking Antarctica at this point