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Unfortunately it's out of date, and fawning and freezing have since been added.
Fawning? As in giving birth? Giving adoration? Acting childish?
Sucking up to the oppressor. Stockholm syndrome is an extreme example. It prioritises long term survival over freedom.
Basically, be nice to the bastard aggressive boss, and hopefully he won't fire you for looking at him funny.
Deer in headlights.
That's freezing.
it doesn't matter how many f words they come up with, we're all saying the same one in the moment
You are mixing up the four Fs
Fight Flight Freeze and Fawn as the response to Fear
And functions of hypothalamus that had shit mnemonic put in textbook.
Those are trauma responses, not exactly the same sort of list as basic biological drives. Inter-related, certainly, but not quite the same.
I’m just proud I got through this comment without saying “ackshually”.
ironically, the person experiencing all of the f things are all thinking the same f word regardless
Flop, funster, fib... It's like some authors need to leave their mark on that list by adding yet another F.