4 Clear Signs You’re In Survival Mode
#1 You feel that no one can help you.
When we experience stressful events or circumstances, our bodies adapt to survive. They turn to automatic responses that are supposed to help us overcome the situation we’re in.
These responses are fight, flight, fawn, and freeze.
Sometimes, we’re chronically stressed. We get stuck in these responses because we don’t know how to get out of the circumstances we’re in.
Here are some signs you’re in survival mode.
1. You feel that no one can help you.
When we’re in survival mode, we feel hopeless and completely alone. We feel like we have no one to turn to.
Even if we do have someone to turn to, the idea of asking for help either doesn’t cross our minds or makes us feel like a failure. More often than not, that’s because, growing up, we didn’t know what it was like to have a secure base/support system.
People with an avoidant or fearful-avoidant attachment style are more prone to believe they have to do everything by themselves.
