I've kind of been starting to think of the flight/fight response as having a third aspect: mania.
When I get really excited about something, I tend to act blindly, hastily. Similar to when I feel aggression/fear.
Does anyone have any thoughts on this, or science to dis/prove?
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i haven't been very manic but when i've been hypomanic there's what i would describe as like an "attentional narrowing": a few considerations take up all of my awareness and i'm blind to a bunch of other stuff, and i think aggression/fear can also do this
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Yeah! That's the kind of thing I'm talking about.
I feel like there are multiple emotional states that can cause me to have that kind of hyper focus- which I think of as more or less not being 'present'.
I don't like using that word though, because it's super ambiguous.
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