The fight-or-flight response (also called the fight-or-flight-or-freeze response, hyperarousal, or the acute stress response) is a physiological reaction that occurs in response to a perceived harmful event, attack, or threat to survival.

The negative emotional state or a primitive mind state which makes a person to respond by reacting, fighting, accusing, finding fault or fleeing a way from a conflict or situation.


A person who is not able to rationalize a sitiuation or conflict, will always respond with a flight response.


It was first described by Walter Bradford Cannon. 

His theory states that animals react to threats with a general discharge of the sympathetic nervous system, priming the animal for fighting or fleeing.


The state of not being able to handle conflicts, arguments and disagreements.

More specifically, the adrenal medulla produces a hormonal cascade that results in the secretion of catecholamines, especially.

This response is recognized as the first stage of a general adaptation syndrome that regulates stress responses among vertebrates and other organisms.
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