Fight Flight Freeze – Anxiety Explained For Teens
Anxiety Canada (2:41min)
Description: "Watch this video developed by Anxiety Canada to learn how anxiety keeps us alive, and how worries in your head affect what you feel in your body. Anxiety Canada created this video with support from BC Partners for Mental Health and Addictions Information." (March 25, 2019)
The Fight Flight Freeze Response
Braive (3:05min)
Description: "The "fight or flight response" is our body's automatic and primitive, inborn response that prepares the body to "fight" or "flee" from perceived attack, harm or threat to our survival. Sometimes, though, we perceive threat or harm when in reality, things are totally fine. This video explains how FFF-responses work, what it does to our body and mind, and how to deal with it." (March 31, 2016)
What Is the Fight or Flight Response and How Does It Relate to PTSD?
Brainline (3:17min)
Description: "For people with PTSD, the fight or flight response can be an effective way to avoid unwanted feelings. But avoidance is not a long-term strategy for a happy life." (August 23, 2013)
PTSD and the Brain
Veterans Health Administration (4:47min)
Description: "PTSD may develop after experiencing a traumatic event. Learn about the neurobiology of PTSD--or how PTSD affects your brain--and the stress response system. There are evidence-based talk therapies that work for PTSD and medications to help manage PTSD symptoms." (September 21, 2021)
What is PTSD?
Psych Hub (4:41min)
Description: "Almost everyone lives through something traumatic at some point in life. Most people have a lot of distress right after a #trauma happens but begin to feel better over time. For other people, the distress continues, and they begin to have symptoms that really impact their lives." (April 6, 2020)
The psychology of post-traumatic stress disorder - Joelle Rabow Maletis
TED-Ed. (5:12min)
Description: "Many of us will experience some kind of trauma during our lifetime. Sometimes, we escape with no long-term effects. But for millions of people, those experiences linger, causing symptoms like flashbacks, nightmares, and negative thoughts that interfere with everyday life. Joelle Rabow Maletis details the science behind post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD." (June 25, 2018)