Therapy in a Nutshell

Therapy in a Nutshell


How Anxiety Affects the Brain 9/30 How to Recognize and Turn off the Fight Flight Freeze Response

April 08, 2021

How does anxiety impact the biology of your brain? When your deep brain perceives a threat it turns on the anxiety response. Anxiety turns down your ability to think and goes into a protective reactive mode called the Fight Flight Freeze Response. This i.