Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Most of us know about the “fight or flight” response, the body’s built-in survival instinct. But that framework leaves out two ...

Americans are dealing with a palpable sense of uncertainty about the economy. Most react to money fears in three ways: fight, flight, or freeze. Which are you? Identifying your reaction can help ...

Fear affects the decisions we make, the actions we take, and the lives we create. Recognizing fear and knowing how to handle it are among the most important skills we can learn. To deal with fearful ...

Spend enough time in self-help spaces—by following therapists online or devouring books in that genre—and you'll read quite a bit about the "fight-flight-freeze-fawn" responses to stress. Essentially, ...

Functional freeze, otherwise known as the the third "F" in the fight, flight, freeze and fawn list, is a stress response defined as a feeling of numbness or paralysis when faced with a threat. This ...

As the markets fall, it is natural to have a visceral reaction to your investment losses. If you have been invested appropriately, this market volatility shouldn’t pose a threat to your ability to ...

Fight or flight are not the only common responses to a traumatic event. I addressed this a bit in a column published on November 22, 2022 explaining that some authors describe “4 F’s”: fight, flight, ...