ADHD and the Fawn Response

Hacking Your ADHD

William Curb

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 702 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Hey team,

Recently when I was talking with my therapist, they mentioned that it seemed like I would frequently go into the fawn response - I was a little taken aback by this because while I felt like I’d heard of the fawn response before, it wasn’t something I was familiar with, or even could even particularly put my finger on what it was.

Fortunately for me, I run a podcast where I can dive into topics and gleam a bit more understanding about things I’m interested in.

While most of us have probably heard of the fear responses of fight, flight and freeze, there is also a forth response known as fawning. In today’s episode we’re going to be looking at all the fear responses as well as looking at how we can start working on better controlling those responses.

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This Episode’s Top Tips

When faced with a threat, our body's automatic response can be fight, flight, freeze, or fawn.
Fawning behavior is a trauma response that involves people-pleasing to avoid abuse. People-pleasing can become a problem when it is done compulsively and to the detriment of one's own self-interest.
It is important to be mindful of our emotions and identify when we are in a fear response. While fear is a healthy emotion that can help protect us, we don't want it to control our actions. 4. Identifying and acknowledging our emotions can be helpful, and seeking therapy can also be beneficial.

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0:00.0	This is an ad by BetterHelp. Think about the people who inspire you most. Guess what? They don't have all the
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0:33.9	Welcome to Hacking your ADHD. I'm your host, William Kerb, and I have ADHD. On this podcast,
0:40.9	I dig into the tools, tactics, and best practices to help you work with your ADHD brain.
0:47.0	Hey, team, recently when I was talking with my therapist, they mentioned that it seemed like
0:51.2	I frequently would go into the phone response. I was taken a little back by this because, well, I felt like I frequently would go into the fawn response.
0:59.1	I was taken a little back by this because, while I felt like I'd heard of the fawn response before, it wasn't something that I was overly familiar with or even could particularly put
1:03.7	my finger on exactly what it was. Fortunately for me, I wrote a podcast where I can dive into
1:09.5	topics like this and gleaned
1:10.8	a little bit more understanding about things that I'm interested in.
1:14.1	While most of us have probably heard of the fear responses of fight, flight, and freeze,
1:19.1	there is also a fourth response known as Fonanen.
1:22.5	In today's episode, we're going to be looking at all the fear responses, as well as how
1:26.6	we can start working on better
1:27.8	controlling those responses. If you'd like to follow along on the show notes page, you can find that
1:33.3	at hacking your ADHD.com slash 140. All right, keep on listening to find out how you respond
1:41.6	to fear.
1:49.3	Thank you. to find out how you respond to fear. Fight or flight. Do I engage or do I run away?
1:53.9	What's the best way for me to protect myself?
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