You find yourself constantly on edge, ready to fight at any moment. Exactly in line with the result of your fear response quiz, which is “Fight”. (If you haven’t taken the quiz yet, take the Fear Response Quiz now!) You’ve now started to notice that your behavior aligns with this type of response and can’t help but wonder what other signs to look out for.
It’s important to recognize that a “fight” response doesn’t necessarily mean an aggressive physical confrontation. There are many different ways that this response can manifest itself in your behavior when you feel threatened or afraid. Here are some hidden signs of your “Fight” response that you might not be aware of.
1. Often feeling intensely angry.
You find yourself getting angry easily over little things. Every simple misunderstanding with other people irritates you. Well, this is a sign of fight response already. Your fight response comes off with an angry feeling in response to certain situations.
2. You find yourself being judgmental.
Do you judge everyone around you? For example, a simple mistake in the work of your colleague makes you think that they are careless or dumb already. This is an indication of a fight fear response. That habit of judging others inside your mind is the fight response here.
3. Self-destructive.
Do you self-blame until you ruin your own mind and self? If yes, then you definitely do fight response. Unfortunately, the consequences of your actions here come to you. Most of the time, people doing this are unaware that their fight response is already in self-destructive mode. It can come off as fighting off your fear until you find yourself ruined already. Unaware that by fighting off your fear, you have forgotten to take care of yourself already.
4. Distrustful.
Another hidden sign of fight fear response is being distrustful of others. You tend to question everyone. You fight off your fear by being suspicious about what is happening to you or to the people around you.
5. Controlling.
This sign is very subtle because it can appear that you’re just concerned about others, which is why you want to control them, but in reality, you might be having these feelings of needing to control them in order to just be able to keep yourself safe from your fears. Controlling others gives you the opportunity to control your surroundings and be away from your own fears. You fight your fear by controlling it and everything that leads to it.
6. Lashing out.
This sign is the most obvious act of a person with fight fear response. Most of the time, people with this fear response find themselves shouting or answering back to others, even over some small, simple things. If you find yourself doing such things, most definitely, your fear response is fight. You feed your fight response through this act of lashing out.
Does this sign resonate with you? Do you relate to these signs? Experiencing these signs in response to emotional, physical, and social threats shows that you have a fight fear response. But if you’re still in doubt, you can take this Fear Response Quiz we made just for you. With this, you’ll be able to learn what your fear response really is. Understanding and identifying your fear response can help you manage and regulate the intense emotions of each of the four fear responses.
If you think you have a different fear response, you can try reading these articles:
5 Hidden Signs You Might Not Know About the “Flight” Response
Stuck In A Freeze Fear Response, Should I Be Worried?
Fawning: The Not-Well-Known Fourth Fear Response
4 Fear Responses: “Fight”, “Flight”, “Freeze”, and “Fawn” in Movies
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