Stupid fight-or-flight response

[hummingwolf]

Thanks to primitive neurocircuitry, I'm having to argue with myself when I find myself with the urge to either pretend there are no problems to deal with or act as if the best way to deal with problems is by screaming at somebody--anybody--possibly as a prelude to beating them up. The fact that I'm not energetic enough to beat somebody up even if I really wanted to (and on the rational level I don't want to, mostly) doesn't make the lower brain parts shut up. No, they figure if I can't fight, then I need to go find a hole somewhere and hide till everything blows over. Except, of course, hiding won't help solve problems when I'm the only one who's even thinking about dealing with them right now. The best thing to do would be to calmly, rationally...

and the lower parts of my brain stop me there and try again to figure out who to beat up.

Gah.

This "life" thing can be such a drag.

Comments

[occipitaldruid.livejournal.com]

freaking autonomic nervous system...can get the lot of us in trouble...

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

It really, really can.