fight response is about being aggressive toward the threat to make it go away (e.g., yelling or beating it up). The flight response is about physically leaving the environment or relationship (e.g., running away or ghosting). The freeze response happens when we can’t physically leave, so we do the second-best thing by mentally departing and blocking out what’s going on (e.g., dissociating, numbing ourselves, constant daydreaming). But the fawn response? Oooooooh, the fawn response is about becoming more appealing to the threat, being liked by the threat, satisfying the threat, being helpful
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