OK, I need to explain about adrenalin.....

[sixtyandsomething]

It really bugs me when people on MN talk rubbish, and when they don't know simple science - and I KNOW everyone in the country has been taught this, as it is in the GCSE double award, which is the minimum amount of science that is compulsory in England.

It is called fright, flight or fight.

After a scare or injury, you are flooded with adrenalin, which is a hormone that diverts blood from digestion, immune system and other non critical systems. Blood rushes to heart and lungs, getting oxygen into muscles double speed, giving you more power and strength short term than your body can sustain longer term. You don't feel pain, you feel energy and aggression.

Yes, if you are shot in the ear, you first and most natural response is likely to be defiance and retaliation, pushing away security, ignoring danger, gestures of defiance or triumph.

I don't like the man, and I may even be a little bit sorry he wasn't hurt worse, but his reaction is not "unnatural" or "looks staged" or "obviously planned and acted" -on the contrary, it is entirely as you would expect.

and yet another poster saying that the fist pump is an unnatural reaction to a genuine shock..... no it isn't!

Why are you posting your lecture in aibu?
Put it in a more appropriate forum, OK?

Would you mind giving your threads a title that better reflects their content? Eg. "Trump and the roll of adrenaline in defiant gestures"

Your GCSE in double science doesn't actually make you an expert.

Are you going to set us homework too?

What a patronising title and post.

What about people who didn't pass Science GCSE? Should they know this too?

well you can’t even spell adrenaline, so?

Speak for yourself about the Double Science, ducky. People existed before the start of GCSEs.

😂 they should be embarrassed

Haha rookie error OP.
Thanks for all the wonderfully insightful info though 😅

Marvellous. Another thread about that knob head. You couldn't have put his name in the title?

I took Physics and Chemistry at GCE 'O' Level back in the day.
I can assure you neither syllabus covered adrenaline.

So, you KNOW nothing

What a patronising and misleading title.

Lots of people are older than GCSEs. Didn't you know that?

I think the most fascinating think is the correspondent on the floor, on his stomach doing an update while saying they have to hide behind his car. While everyone else is walking around like.

If we are correcting people then it's actually

Flight fight freeze and fawn

Also I didn't get my education I. The UK many wont have so no we didn't all take this for GCSE.

Fright 🤣

I thought it was fight, flight and freeze. Fawn and freeze are surely the same? Or is fawn like lay down and let them do what they want to you, and freeze is play dead and hope they ignore you? 😅

It doesn't matter, the principle is the same

It’s equally shocking when people can’t spell, did they not take English in the U.K.? I’m aware we all have our strengths and weaknesses OP, just think you should be too.

The freeze and fawn responses exert distinct short-term and long-term effects on the body. The freeze response induces a state of immobilisation, leading to muscle tension and a sense of detachment. Meanwhile, the fawn response involves accommodating others to seek approval, often resulting in emotional exhaustion, internal conflict, and a lack of trust and connection to one’s own body.

So not the same no. It's actually a rather fascinating area of human psychology/responses.

Fawn was recognised later. But fawn is not the same as freeze.
I've read pete walkers books. Not an expert obs tho

Oh wow yeah that is interesting! Makes sense.

But you said fright, flight and fight 🤷🏻‍♀️ nothing about fawn or freeze. The tone of your OP is just not a good look.