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Originally posted by evenodds
Speaking of panic, the OM and I were discussing people's behaviors in moments of crisis. Neither of us could imagine witnessing panic at the moment of an event.
You just deal until you're through it.
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I've unfortunately seen and been involved in a good number of panic inducing events. I find that there are a couple different ways of responding. Some people, the panic shuts down and they just deal, very calmly, with whatever is going on.
Others freak out and make it difficult for the people who are calmly trying to deal.
Still others just freeze, and at least they aren't in the way of the people calmly trying to deal.
A friend who is in the Army told me that one of the biggest problems they have is when they go to war they never can know whether someone they just put in charge of a bunch of kids will fight or flee. And he also said the people you think are bravest are just as likely to cut and run as the ones you think are cowards. There simply is no control over it, you are either a fight or flight person and that's that.
