Fight, Flight or Freeze?

The Autonomic Nervous System, (ANS). This is our bodies unconscious protection. If we are under threat, this system helps us to prepare for survival. If you consider that our bodies have not changed much such since the Neolithic era, it may be interesting for you to consider how events that we find threatening or stressful have changed beyond recognition since those times, but our bodies have not changed.

Lets consider the physical response to threat/ danger/ stress. See the document below:

ANS response.doc

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If this system was activated for prolonged periods, you can see how the presentation then starts to look very like CFS/ME, Fibromyalgia, Long Covid etc.

If we can address this system and the contributing factors, it can help switch this response off and settle symptoms.