Emotional state
- Feelings of helplessness
- Apathy
- Submission
- Beginning stage of panic and crying
Function of stage
- Making the body small, to not be noticed or perceived as a threat
- Inability to protect oneself, attempting to be ignored
Muscle reactions in stage
- Compression and spasticity begins
- Chest locks in inspiration
- Diaphragm locks in expiration
- Person exhibits a loss of energy and doesn't show excitement
- Muscles attaching to the spine constricts
- Head is pulled back in extension
- Constriction of throat and nasal tubes
- Hands freeze in a pattern of extension and 'webbing' of fingers
- The beginning of increased fragmentation with panic and crying responses