Bullies are masters of activating stress and anxiety in their victims. They do this by getting you to engage your own stress and fear responses FFFF.

Today we’ll dig deep into that…how they get you to work yourself into a frenzy of stress and fear.

FIGHT:

Most people think of the fight fear response as actual physical fighting, but the vast majority of the time fighting comes out as resistance, refusal, or arguing. Of course it can also be straight up physical outbursts and fights.

Reaction is a form of fight too. In this case you resist the source of the problem, the bully, instead of resisting the idea of the problem through denial.

They bully wants you at zero or 180. Whether you reject your part all together, which means you feel powerless against them, and they can walk all over you, or you go o ...