Most of us know about the “fight or flight” response, the body’s built-in survival instinct. But that framework leaves out ...

When someone’s gone through emotional neglect, chronic stress, or unprocessed trauma, it often shows up in ways that look like laziness from the outside. But dig deeper, and what looks like apathy, ...

Fight or flight are not the only common responses to a traumatic event. I addressed this a bit in a column published on November 22, 2022 explaining that some authors describe “4 F’s”: fight, flight, ...

Women are more than twice as likely as men to develop stress-related conditions such as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), ...

People who have been through trauma are often good at hiding it. It’s not exactly something they want to share with the world, which is understandable. However, there may be some personality traits ...