Fear and anxiety set in and I began to feel knots in my stomach, then the words I want to say get jumbled and I don’t “look before I leap.” Sometimes, when I was experiencing the Flat Brain Syndrome, I tend to blurt out my feelings of anger (p.25). The Flat-Brain Syndrome are symptoms that I am experiencing at the time when my systems go haywire. For example, my stomach expands like a balloon filled with an overload of mixed emotions, such as anger, fear, anxiety and fear of rejection. The upward expansion flattens my brain against the top of my skull, and my ability to think clearly is not functioning well (p.25). My ears feel like they are filling up with air and my eyes feel a burning sensation. My heart pounds rapidly and the parasympathetic
