Alarmed Aloneness holds a similar intensity as fight and flight and activates all the same stress responses and biological systems in your body. But it’s not flight (nothing to run away from), it’s not fight (no one to kick out of your boundary), and it’s not freeze (though it can escalate to freeze if it is not attended to and accompanied with empathy).
Alarmed Aloneness happens on the neurobiological circuit within you called the GRIEF/PANIC circuit
You feel deeply sad, bu