Anxiety, fear and panic attacks are ways we cope with feeling out of control.

We turn to addiction when we've reached our limit. We're so distressed.

We are trying to get away from our experience. It's too much!

Day dreaming. Dissociating. Denial. Escape.

We might be too numb to even know we're feeling anxious.

We project it out onto someone else.

Fight/ flight/ freeze are run by our primitive brain.

We try to set up our life so we're not triggered: control, co-dependence, perfectionism.

Fighting back includes: lashing out, physical, righteous indignation, power over someone.