Flight-Or-Fight Definition

I was in a crippling car accident and will never walk again... is what I could say if I had actually been in one of the cars at the time of the collision . Really, I was on the sidewalk with my friend Nick as we were walking to school on a Saturday to volunteer at our school’s Food Bank. I watched a little grey Prius run a red light and t-bone a big orange Jeep. The world stopped around me and I seemed alone in the world, then as the crashed replayed in my mind for the third time I snapped back to reality. My mind quickly moved toward the next goal I wanted to accomplish, my body instinctively moved forward: I was not going to watch someone die today. It was in this moment that I learned the true definition of flight-or-fight.

The adrenal glands are the producers of epinephrine in the body, most commonly known as adrenaline. In stressful situations your adrenal glands secrete adrenaline into your blood, increasing your heart rate, muscle strength, blood pressure and sugar metabolism, while also starting the flight-or-fight response in the brain. The flight part of the response is when your instinct is to disassociate yourself from the situation, trying to leave or avoid it. The flight portion is when you act in defense of someone else or of yourself. While I looked to my friend whom had started showing signs of flight, I was already ready to fight. …show more content…
With the adrenaline in my blood something that would be hard on a normal day was like opening a can of soda.I had to get her awake and out of the car in case the car caught fire. And her life was further in danger. She was drenched in the coffee that I presume she was drinking during the accident. The seatbelt was lost under her body, but I was able to get it undone, and her to sit up. My friend who I ordered to go to the other car came back and both the driver and passenger were