Nervous System: Fight, Flight, Freeze Explained #shorts

Added: 2026-05-16

[00:00:00]Very much like a smoke alarm. A smoke alarm does what? When a smoke alarm goes off, it's because it's supposed to be fire. However, if there's a lot of smoke present, the fire alarm will go off.

[00:00:13]And that's how the nervous system is.

[00:00:14]There doesn't even have to be a fire.

[00:00:16]So, a lot of times what's happening with this is the nervous system is kicking in and saying, "We need to fight, flight, or freeze."

[00:00:25]when you really don't have to.

[00:00:27]Because there's no fire, there's just smoke.