Flooding - The Flood

Flooding is a new term I am using to address the often miss titled adrenaline rush or dump. It actually applies to all emotionally driven stress responses be it a conflict leading to the need for self-defense or any stress induced conflict like a family dispute - that by the way can sometimes end up leading to that conflict leading to the need for self-defense or fighting or what ever with Uncle Bob staggering around arguing about whatever.

I decided to use this generic term simply because upon reading about it in the book, “Emotional Intelligence,” I said to self, “self, this stuff sounds exactly like a monkey driven egoistic pride filled triggering flood of adrenaline chemicals in the body when the fight/anger is present.