As fear uncouples from the immobilization sensations, you may scratch your head and ask, where does the fear go? The short and confounding answer is that when titrated, “fear” simply does not really exist as an independent entity. The actual acute fear that occurred at the time of the traumatic event, of course, no longer exists. What happens, however, is that one provokes and perpetuates a new fear state (one literally frightens oneself) and becomes one’s own self-imposed predator by bracing against the residual sensations of immobility and rage. While paralysis itself need not actually be
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