6 Steps to Breaking Out of the Fight Flight Freeze Response in cPTSD
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- Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Qualified Clinical Supervisor. She received her PhD in Mental Health Counseling from the University of Florida in 2002. In addition to being a practicing clinician, she has provided training to counselors, social workers, nurses and case managers internationally since 2006 through AllCEUs.com 📢SUBSCRIBE and click the BELL to get notified when new videos are uploaded.
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 Break Out of the Fight-Flight-Freeze
00:12 Function of 5 Fs
04:10 cPTSD and the 5 Fs -1
07:40 cPTSD and the 5 Fs -2
09:45 Creating Safety to Heal
11:28 Breaking Out -1
17:06 Breaking Out -2
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It's created a lot of sadness 😔 😟 🙁 😥 in my life. That damn flight response
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I have been in and out of therapy since I was a child. Haven't really found a therapist that I trust and can stick with. My last therapist lasted a year but after every session I'd find myself crying or hostile days after. If I'm not retreating from the world I'm angry and sad. I appreciate these videos to better help me understand why I am this way...
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Thank you so much Dr Snipes! I love the way you teach us about the process including a bit of science. It feels to me like you have faith in us as learners which feels to me like a beautiful gift. Plus, it's wonderful to be reminded, as I seek to develop patience and compassion for myself (and others) that we can't just walk out of a long term trauma-based environment and be all better the next day, but that we definitely can get better. The stroke survivor is a handy metaphor for me to bear in mind and in heart, rather than being hard on myself because I haven't been able to accomplish all my dreams, by yesterday at the latest.
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I am stuck in fight and flight. This was very informative
I am sorry you are stuck in fight of flight. I am grateful to be of help and I appreciate you watching the video
@@DocSnipes thank you for taking the time to reply. Do you have a video or could make a video on agoraphobia? I apologize if this has already been made, I did not see a video on the topic.
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The lord bless you and keep you he makes his face to shine upon you and he is gracious to you he lifts up his countenance upon you and he turns his face towards you and he gives you his beloved his PEACE 🌈🌈God loves you 🌈🌈
Thank you, Dr. Snipes! I always learn so much about myself from your videos! 🙏♥️
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Thanks these last two years has left me with trauma and oh my emotions daily. The list goes on.
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Re: 10:20 - I like this, a secure attachment to yourself.
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Thank you so very much for such an informative video Dr......it's as if you are solely speaking out to me. Being constantly in a fight or flight mode....being constantly triggered is such a draining place to be.....causing feelings so tired makes it so difficult to fight on everyday. I am an NLP practitioner and therefore am knowledgeable about the brain/mind however when you're suffering yourself, it's not so easy to take your own advise. Thank you again xxxx
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@@DocSnipes understanding and education about a particular problem can help so much, and this is what you do.....which facilitates healing. Thank you again xx
Funny you mention “we don’t expect someone who had a stroke to just get up and go back to work…” that was the cherry on top of pre-existing c-ptsd, a chiropractic adjustment tearing an artery in my neck and causing stroke. Back to work at a physical job as a single mother rocking back and forth pretending I’m okay. Two years later I’m still in functional freeze. Doing somatic experiencing. I’ve come a long way but still frozen to joy. Feel like I’m trapped in my body. Thanks for this information.
You’re most welcome. I am sorry that happened to you
Somatic experiencing and somatic work are helping me too❤ much love to you and all who are healing from this
Thank you so much for putting out free education on these topics, it’s really empowered me in a rough time. ❤
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I LOVE how you compare this to recovering from a stroke! That is what i needed to hear. Thank you wise woman🙏❤️
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Thank you for the support of applicable and concise content. This information is invaluable.
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So glad for this info and how I can understand other's anxiety reactions. That we can heal gives me hope.
Dr. Gabor Maté talks about compassionate inquiry and instead of me being upset another is using aggression, dominance, and jealousy; it's better I try to understand they're going through their own disturbances like many us do.
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That's an understatement, to say the least. They're why we're in this situation!
As a (retired) high intensity NHS therapist, I cannot argue with any of this!
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Excellent. Needed this encouragement today.
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Thank you so much Dr Snipes. This video helped me so much in understanding how I have been reacting to events and stress occur in my life. It’s amazing. I will for sure watch more of your videos. Thank you.
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You stick to what you teach without wandering off from the topic.Congrats.I love u btw
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Very helpful for what ive been going thru. Everything makes sense now. Can't thank you enough for helping me understand and move forward
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Thank you again Doctor Snipes 🙏💐👍
You’re so welcome. If you don’t mind me asking, what tool do you find more helpful in breaking out the Fight Flight Freeze response in cPTSD?
@@DocSnipes I wish I knew more methods. If I go into fight or flight it's like something has taken over and I am no longer at the helm. When or how I manage to break out of it is a crap shoot. Sometimes it seems it has been an act of God. Though, it happens less frequently with less amplitude now. I used to ask my husband to show empathy, make eye contact, offer a hug or comforting touch if I was receptive. (This makes me kinda sad to think of the level of distress I have been in for a lifetime.) The freeze response is much the same. When the feelings come over me of sadness, loneliness, abandonment nothing seems to help very much in that moment and I honestly mostly wait it out. I learned havening in an online trauma group, but haven't tried it for freeze response. Conscious breathing helps for fight or flight if I have the wherewithal to use it.
I would literally be 500,000x more willing to learn how to walk and eat again after a stroke, than to stay feeling like I’m dying in a freeze response for one more day. I’m so so hopeless.
It’s great that you are learning how to step out of the freeze response and I appreciate you watching the video
We can do it❤ me too. Much love to you.
It feels like learning to walk and talk again if u let this freeze response advance
Thank you for being you! I'm learning so much.
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Thh hi is is the best video I have watched regarding fight or flight in months! Thank you so much for this knowledgeable video 🙏💓
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Thankyou SO much. Been through many traumas and had very little help. It felt like i lost my memory and ability to plan or enjoy anything, I felt like I was trapped in a bubble while life happened around me. I didn't know it was PTSD till now. The place I live has never felt safe and I'm away from my daughter. Moving home on Sunday, back to my village where she lives too and I feel safe after 7 long years, so bring on the healing ☺. Much much love everyone and k hope you all find peace in your hearts and lives 🙏❤❤❤❤❤🙏
Thanks for watching! Wishing you peace, health, and happiness.
I learned something today. When I go into stress response, I stop eating. This stresses me out. I haven't eaten in days, haven't eaten much in a month, have no appetite. I have five day weekends this time of year, and I spend them in bed, on an empty stomach, looking at the ceiling fan. I should eat. But food is flavorless. I know eating is the path forward. Still i can't get out of this bed to do it.
I am sorry you stop eating when you go into stress response. Thanks for watching and for sharing.
This is me too 🙏🏽😞 xxx
Thank you, I needed this atm.
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Thank you Dr Snipes
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Madam cau you plz deliver one full exclusive lecture on OCD and ERP to treat this disorder looking forward for your favour in this regard. Thanks .
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Wow thank you! Great presentation thank you!
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Thank you so much for this is it normal to lose my memory and forget as soon as my husband would say something mean and then I would forget and I only remembered the good stuff until I started writing it down I couldn't remember I had so much dissonance I couldn't remember anything my short-term memory was just gone and on top of all that back and forth meeting it was the gas lighting too I couldn't you know you didn't see what you saw you didn't hear what you heard so I just my mind erased so much
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The lord bless you and keep you he makes his face to shine upon you and he is gracious to you he lifts up his countenance upon you and he turns his face towards you and he gives you his beloved his PEACE 🌈🌈God loves you 🌈🌈
You might've or still be dissociating if the trauma and manipulation has been severe enough, or ongoing and escalating.
I had 2 solid months and 3 more additional months of generalized dissociative amnesia, it was so severe.
This video helped me so much. Thank you ❤️
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Thank you dr for your help explaining
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Brilliant. Thanks a lot
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thank you Doctor,
You’re most welcome
I'm in the fluck it stage. I guess this explains why I can't sleep. I'm lucky if I can sleep over 1hr at a time. I'm also losing things and can't concentrate. I lose my car keys so much that I attached a hammer to my keyring to make it easier to find. It's virtually impossible to watch movies and follow the plot. I can watch a movie a dozen times and always see something new. When I do watch movies it's the older low budget ones because they're easier to follow, but even those I have to watch multiple times to fully understand the plot
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The lord bless you and keep you he makes his face to shine upon you and he is gracious to you he lifts up his countenance upon you and he turns his face towards you and he gives you his beloved his PEACE 🌈🌈God loves you 🌈🌈
Thank you 🙏🏽 💐
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Thanks!
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Great video
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So true I don’t think I’ll ever heal until me and my kids run away from this state when they come home
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I have subscribed to your channel, thank you much
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I have been in fight and flight for 15 years from Covert Passive Aggressive Narcissist Abuse
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I am like your son 😘 I respect you as much as I do my mother 😊
Please do a video on breaking out of the fawn response.
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Also, this video on people pleasing is helpful in breaking down the Fawn response: th-cam.com/video/EsqPmJ1vG1s/w-d-xo.html
I knew the toxic people, bullies, narcissists made it hard for me to learn in school and screwed up my education. I quit school at 16 and went back at 32 to finish with a 4.0 GPA. What the &#(%.
I am sorry about that. What tip from the video are you planning to use to address that?
@@DocSnipes That's life.
thank you! :)
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I'm good..but the info is good 2 know. Thanks! 👍
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Not able to cry
Me too
Thank you 🌈🌈God bless you sister 🌈🌈
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Nice
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This is me ive always been this way but last year its been bad, im in panic mode 24/7 im shattered.😮
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Ive been stuck on this alert mode for so long i can physically feel something vibrating behind my eyes. Cant relax enough to sleep.
I am sorry about that. What tips will you use to break out of the fight-flight-freeze response?
18:00 "Shouldn't feel this way, struggling with it... this is what's activating the stress response." There's so much one does not have control over when you have a physically painful condition that has no cure, no surgery, nor medication remedy. Just add auto immune disorders, stir, and it all mixes and piles on. Being in pain every day wears on you. Good sleep gets shattered. Just soldiering on because there's shopping to do, bills to pay, laundry to wash, food to cook, spouse to support, no matter how bad I feel-- Sometimes things that shouldn't be triggering, are, because your reserve is plundered. A hammered HPA Axis must be the answer. It seems like Don Quixote's invisible foe, because--in a way, it is. But at least now I think I have a lead, if not an answer...
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The lord bless you and keep you he makes his face to shine upon you and he is gracious to you he lifts up his countenance upon you and he turns his face towards you and he gives you his beloved his PEACE 🌈🌈God loves you 🌈🌈
Why did my X’s chronic lying and withholding cause so much fight, flight responses?
Can someone please tell the steps she says we should take?
I love your dress!
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How does all that impact the stomach and gut movement.
You may want to have a look at a book by Bessel Van Kolk called The Body Keeps the Score
When I panic, my veins constrict, I definitely notice, and my blood pressure goes pretty high, and then the fears of impending heart attack, which might be not real, panics me even more: this belief developed over years of believing that dealing with certain problems could give me a heart attack. So now almost any minor issue worries me and get me into panic, and I have to take an anxiety pill to calm down. Is funny that back then I used to argue and scream without any concern of high blood pressure or heart attack. Even though I have been able lately to perform certain activities that I thought would cause me a heart attack, like exercising. Has been a long process of improvement through efforts, experimentation and getting informed 😅🙄 in addition, I have been through a couple pretty bad traumas, and most likely I have undiagnosed PTSD, bit of depression and who knows what else
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Can these all noted in “break out” be permanent gone forever ? Fight & Freeze & Flight & Fawn & Forget-about-it ?
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I really need a video to cope when rh freeze modus i keep attracting tax c ppl and i just freeze which makes me an easy target as i can't defend much. An entire video on that pls
Try these videos www.youtube.com/@DocSnipes/search?query=toxic%20relationships Ultimately turning off the threat response requires getting into your wise mind and figuring out what you need to do to be safe and empowered and work toward your rich and meaningful life.
How to stop ruminating about your freeze response?
Hello
How do I explain to others?
When they don’t take time to learn or care to learn.
They think I should be a fully recovered stroke or tornado victim .
Son in law and daughter expect me to be different than I am.
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I hope and pray that one day. I can reach and help people when I’m healed.
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Wishing you peace, health, and happiness
💜💜 😪🙂 Thank you
I haven't cried in a longtime
You’re so welcome. I am sorry the video made you cry. How are you planning yo break out of the Fight Flight Freeze response?
One day at a time not sure right now
Like the ChaCha. 😄 Good one!!!
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Thank you for watching. How are you planning to step out of the fight or flight response?
This might be a silly question but is it worth me taking probiotics?
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trauma response sounds like ADHD inattentive to me!
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How can a HSP regulate their emotions
My question as well!!
Takes time, lot of "me time", morning/daily routines. Quality sleep, food, regular walks etc. Avoid certain things (temporarily). And as mentioned, you want to take care of the body, expand the "capacity" or "window of tolerance" to handle things. But it's doable.
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The hair tho 😍😍😍
Thanks for watching and for sharing
I'm trying to come back from COVID lockdowns... agoraphobia... And not from fear of germs but how badly I was hunted down and persecuted for not masking...
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You're assume and I hope you are very happy in your life and If struggling your self at times that you have the love you need your soulmate your great but remember and you probably already know don't get a big head 🗣️ just a sigma male ur assume you have helped me so much and I have been around some
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Every day, at work place.
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My phsyciatrist dont help been 16yrs i seeing. 😓🤦♀️
I am sorry about that. How will you use the video to break out of the Fight Flight Freeze Response?
@@DocSnipes i need to work on that change the wires in my brain. It take one day at a time.
What's HPA?
The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis (HPA axis).
@@DocSnipes Thank you
I feel dissociation every day
I appreciate you watching. What would you say is your favorite step to breaking out of the Fight Flight freeze response in cPTSD?
Re-listening to this brilliant woman's talk. Where in the world can I get some of this treament/ practice? Can I come to you for a series of sessions, Dr Snipes? I have been so ready and close to healing orat least a break-through with improvement since 1991. Want to get unstuck now and not keep getting worse.Thank you for your knowledge ; I feel so grateful for the help to survive, keep my light fluttering still, and not go mad.
You’re so welcome. I am grateful to be of help and I appreciate you watching the video. If you’re interested in doing sessions, you can email me at support@allceus.com.
Thank you Doc. I am stuck in fight (I’m not disrespectful, I just stand my ground) or flight mode when I am in a stressful situation. A lot of times when I am mistreated by someone, I do both. It happens more so at work. So I have more work to do with my healing ❤️🩹 due to my childhood trauma and being on autopilot. Takes time, like you said to rebuild. I’m 42 and you would think I would be 💯 by now but I would say. I’m 80% there.
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