the 4F model tries to explain how people respond to stress replacing "fight or flight"

The 4Fs are “Fight, Flight, Fawn, and Freeze”; “Fawn” is more like “Appease” but we had to keep the mnemonic; "Freeze" is a defensive shrinking away in mild cases, but in severe cases can be tonic immobility

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