🔼: [[💡 Stress Response]] # Freeze To be "scared stiff." - [[🛡️ Dissociation]] - Shutdown - [[🛡️ Procrastinating]] - Terror - Guarded - Panic Attacks - Unable to think or act - Racing heart - Unable to speak - Fainting, paralysis - Immobilization - Unable to actively defend ourself - "I don't know." (sometimes) - [[💡 Ghosting|Ghosting]] We tend to struggle to allow these reactions to complete because we rationalize our way out of them. Every reason is [[💡 Fear]]-based: - [[💡 Shame]] about not using [[🛡️ Fight]] or [[🛡️ Flight]] instead. - When the energy expresses itself as involuntary shaking, we get afraid of being out of control and stop it. - Our anger scares us into thinking we'll hurt someone or ourself. - We get scared because the Freeze response feels like death, so we [[🛡️ Avoiding|Avoid]] allowing it to happen. **[[The easiest way to come out of a Freeze response is to simply allow it to happen without resistance or fear]].** ###### Resources https://www.reddit.com/r/CPTSDFreeze/ ![[💡 Reactive Protectors#Working with Reactive Protectors|Reactive Protector]] [^1]: