Fight-or-flight response

The correlation Firdaus draws between a wife, a prostitute, and a slave are clear. She claims that “all women are prostitutes of one kind or another” (page 99) and simply have different prices. The women who are little more than slaves are not, in fact, the prostitutes, but the wives, for they are bound irrevocably to men. A wife must cater to the whims of her husband and may not demand anything in return, lest she provoke him. In this society even a man devoted to god would beat his wife. “The…

anxiety are common and in some point in our lives we will all witness a traumatic event, however, the way one reacts to trauma can affect him/her in the long-run. Some people are able to cope and progress from the life-threatening event with a fight-or-flight response, which is a natural coping mechanism that protects an individual from harm, while others remain constantly frightened, which leads to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). PTSD is a psychological disorder that is triggered by a…

Fear, a primal instinct triggering our fight or flight response. When fear strikes, a humans hereditarily response is to subdue the source of that fear. In today’s America, xenophobia has triggered the fears of large portions of people from coast-to-coast. It’s largely known that the 2016 presidential campaign and presidency of Donald Trump has sparked fear and hatred towards immigrants, both legal and illegal. Hate crimes, according to the FBI, increased by 10% from 2015 to 2016, coincidentally…

and political interests. The second category demonstrates airpower utilization for regime influence and/or removal, specifically as it pertains to violations of human rights. Lastly, we will discuss how airpower is currently being employed in the fight against ISIL. These examples will show the far-reaching strategic impact of airpower on shaping the environment in support of US national objectives. The first category where airpower has played a vital strategic role is in the realm of…

innate survival responses and defences within us that are activated or triggered through unconscious habitual memory as we navigate through life. Psycho-education in CFT explains that we have three basic emotional regulation systems (see Appendix B), which are threat, drive and soothing, each with its own set of…

in control of secreting important hormones in the body like cortisol, epinephrine and norepinephrine. This trilogy of hormones regulates the body’s response…

PTSD or depression, there are several things that could help overcome those obstacles. In summary, abortion can affect people’s lives differently because people react to certain situations in different ways; however, despite the variation of mental responses to abortion, there are always possibilities for detrimental effects to the…

event. One of the more common causes of PTSD is the experience of active combat during a time of war. There is wide a range of common symptoms associated with PTSD, including nightmares, flashbacks, depression, sleep disturbances, and a “fight or flight” response in certain situations. The symptoms of PTSD can be divided into four broad categories: reliving, avoidance, negative beliefs, and hyper-arousal (U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs). In Bao Ninh’s novel, The Sorrow of War, the…

Throughout history, our great nation has overcome some of the toughest challenges in war. From the beginning, during the Revolutionary War, this great nation’s military has fought well when all hope was lost, and defeated its enemy. In 1941, once again, our nation was called upon to defend our nation against a relentless opponent during WWII. The Army has always fought great battles against its enemy. The Korean War and the Vietnam War were tests of our nation’s might. To this day, our…

anxiously for the family to stabilize. The baby’s mobile is illustrative of an important theory of human experience called Family Systems Theory. Murray Bowen, who developed this new theory in 1974, described the act of shaking as emotional reactivity in response to anxiety that does not exist within the individual…