What is the fight-or-flight response?

As with almost all other animals, we humans have a natural, built in defense mechanism -- the "fight-or-flight" response in which the body primes itself to respond successfully to a dangerous situation, and come out alive. The same mechanism that makes a zebra run at the sight of an approaching tiger makes you reflexively pull your hand back when you place it on a hot stove burner. Or when you reflexly jump out of the way of a car that is about to hit you.

Your reflexive responses are augmented by a massive release of catecholamines (stress hormones). In a situation which your brain registers that this is a potentially dangerous or fatal situation, such as during an auto accident where you must make split-second decisions to stay alive -- this release of hormones at first makes you feel anxious (but also able to react instead of simply to freeze) and, later, to feel washed out.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.