HypnoFreak
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Modern life and fight or flight?

due to our ever hectic modern day living, how do you feel this effects our fight or flight reaction?

you may say not at all! but as we can't use our fight or flight basic instinct in modern life does this effect us psyically and mentally?

eg if your boss theatens to fire you for being late, you get scared your fight or flight kicks in, you can't leap on you boss and beat him up, and you can't just turn and run out the door, you stand there (usually) and just take it. this can be said for hundreds of modern day situations, so how does this effect us? is this maybe a reason for a lot of illness and stress etc? what do you think??


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OronD
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I read several books that were dealing with the question you raised, and the answer is defenately yes (last book: "Do Chimpanzees Dream of Retirement" by J. Burak).   All authors claim that we might be with very developed brains but at the base there is our "Reptile Brain" (fight or flight) and this brain causes us to come do bad decisions (since we are afraid to fail or to take risks). 
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HypnoFreak
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so does our basic fight or flight instinct clash with our social wishes to comform with society?? is that what you are saying?

and do you know what part is our F&F, and our subconscious?

is it the area called the Basal ganglia? it's in the limbic system i assume?

thanks for your answer oron, and i will try to check out that book, sounds my type of read!

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OronD
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Hi,


a.  Yes exactly. 
b.  No I don't know.
c.  I am not sure.  But please read
    "Brain Longevity" by D"r Drahama
     Singh (not sure about the spelling)
     you'll sure get the answer (warning
     its a 900 pages book, took me
     some 2 weeks to read it !).
d.  Yes I think so.
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because the fight or flight response can be activated by your boss yelling at you etc. And the fact that you will probably spend many years behind bars if you DID actually hit him, it is probably not practical, for the most part, for the response to be allowed to complete its "course".

some of the consequences of the build up of the chemicals (adrenaline,
glucocorticoids etc) that are activated when we enter fight or flight mode, and then do not actually "fight" or "run", are aggression and overreaction. these responses may not be aimed at the initial reason (in this case, the boss). it could be aimed at someone or something that is nothing to do with the initial incident. thats why lots of people that are getting this response at work etc will take it out on their spouses  usually in the form of arguamentation but can also unfortunately manifest as physical violence. 

 

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