What Happens When Your Survival Instinct Takes Over? - The Daily Scroll

"We have a survivalinstinct to keep us out of danger. It has helped us to survive as a species. But when it was needed in the past, there was a clear threat – a spear thrown at us or a tiger attacking us. But now the survivalinstinct kicks in 24/7, as we go through life. When the survivalinstincttakesover: when something is happening during your day, and you feel yoursurvivalinstinct kicking in, go beyond the immediate reaction. Is this a real threat, or can I let it pass through me and shake it off? The human instinct to survive is our most powerful drive. Since animals climbed out of the primordial muck and as our early ancestors rose from all fours to walk upright, evolution has been guided by its ability to help us survive and reproduce. We become trapped in intermediate stages that can lead to the permanent symptoms after a long term. So, the first signature symptoms of PD called freeze correspond closely to whathappenswhen someone is frozen stiff by their survivalinstincts. The survivalinstincttakesover!The problem comes when our fears stop being our servants and become our masters. This usually happenswhen we are tired, depressed or have lost our self-confidence for some reason. Whathappenswhen you are triggered?A lot. That survivalinstinct could be helpful if there were an actual attack you needed to fend off, but when there isn’t, your body just absorbs all that tension and cortisol, the body’s main stress hormone. How yoursurvivalinstincts keep you quiet—and why certain people profit from it.I learned isolation disguised as independence.