463 - “What’s the matter mate? You scared?” - Encountering conflict and aggression: Fear response and adrenaline
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Nitrogen, oxygen, carbon and hydrogen. Doesn’t sound like much right? Put together in the form above they make the hormone adrenaline (sometimes referred to as epinephrine) which is made primarily in your adrenal glands which sit atop each of your kidneys and also by some of the neurons in the Medulla at the base of the brain.
Looking at the diagram and description above, it doesn’t put across the powerful effects that adrenaline can have on us during a crisis when accompanying the emotion of fear.
There is so much literature already written about it in the public domain so I would rather focus on what you may experience when you are afraid and your body produces large amounts of it and for you to have this knowledge included in your preparation training if you have never experienced it before.
To this end, there is what the list says and then what I can tell you from personal experience and from talking to others, they don’t always align with “reality-based” dogma because not everyone experiences or perceives the same thing depending on their reaction to the threat which I will look at later. But here is a list of fear response sensations: