Fight or Flight and Addiction: Escaping Your Reality

Fight or Flight and Addiction: Escaping Your Reality

Fight or Flight and Addiction: Escaping Reality Explored — In this video, Philippa Smethurst explains how the fight-or-flight response ties into addiction, highlighting that when we cannot confront a threat, we often seek to flee. Addictions, while not a physical escape, serve to avoid facing painful emotions or difficult situations.

By examining the hormonal relief provided by substances—dopamine, oxytocin, and serotonin—Philippa sheds light on how addiction becomes a coping mechanism.

Tune in to explore the connection between primal instincts and modern behaviour and how addiction serves as an escape from deeper issues.

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