Amygdala Hijack - emotional arousal out of control!

The human brain evolved over millennia into 3 parts - the fish brain (automatic reactions), the "lizard" / reptilian brain (emotional reactions), and the "leopard" / mammalian brain (conscious thought reaction).

When we are aroused emotionally, the Amygdala controls our emotional reactions because this is the first part of our brain that reacts to threats, fear, or anger. But the thinking brain should then come in and intervene with conscious rational responses.

Some people however find their amygdala remaining in control and are unable to allow their thinking brain take over control of their bodily reactions, so they remain "stuck" in emotionally heightened state. This is known as
'amygdala hijack".

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[Billionair777]

do fancy things cognitively 3:05 ??? what does that mean?

[belugavision]

I dont believe that. I think there are talking impulses who tell that system to overfunction (reminders/triggers),but incomprehendable for the logic because impressions were not understood logically, just ”saved"..its like impressions that has a link to stored emotions , at a time, when there was no logic place to put those impressions. So inputs, that you dont understand triggers that system and then it cant logically be shut down. Two things talk to eachother but it cant be solved logically