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By Pete Walker
Trauma Hybrids
The Flight/Freeze type is the least relational and most schizoid hybrid. This type
avoids his feelings and potential
relationship retraumatization with an obsessive-compulsive/ dissociative "two-step"
that severely narrows his existence.
The flight/freeze cul-de-sac is more common among men, especially those traumatized
for being vulnerable in childhood,
and those who subsequently learned to seek safety in isolation or "intimacy-lite"
relationships. Many non-alpha type
males gravitate to the combination of flight and freeze defensiveness stereotypical
of the information technology nerd -
the computer addict who workaholically focuses for long periods of time and then
drifts off dissociatively into
computer games. Many sex addicts also combine flight and freeze in a compulsive
pursuit of a sexual pseudo-intimacy.
When in flight mode, they obsessively scheme to "get" sex and/or compulsively
pursue and/or engage in it; when in freeze
mode, they drift off into a right brain sexual fantasy world that is often fueled
by an addictive use of pornography;
and even during real time sexual interaction, they often engage more with their
idealized fantasy partners than with
their actual partner.