The Freeze Response — Why You Didn't Fight or Run

When something bad happened, you froze. You didn't fight. You didn't run. You stood there, or sat there, or lay there — not because you chose to, not because you were weak, not because you didn't care enough about yourself to respond differently. You froze because your nervous system executed the survival response it calculated to be the most likely to protect you in that specific moment. And you've been blaming yourself for it ever since.