My Encyclopedia of My X-Files Fic Lists, Analyses, Fan Vids, and Fan Fiction Resources
So, I pushed all my little anthills into one dust pile because I got sick and tired of having to manually search through my colonies to find that ONE drone.
~~~X-Files Collector’s Edition~~~
Overview
The Fics That Started It All
Meet the Mulders
Car Accidents, Injuries, and Fluff- Oh My!
Creepy and Cozy Cabins
Redux II Samantha Was Real
I Want To Be Leaves (Fall Fics)
Mulder’s Early or Late Birthdays (Season 1)
Mulder’s Early or Late Birthdays (Angst)
Amor Fati(gue)
Amor Fati(gue) AUs
Time Travel, Time Loops, and Just Wrong Timing
Happy Halloween with the Mulder-Scully Family
Many Mondays and “The Creeps”
Ghostly Hauntings and Experiences- AUs
Thanksgivings Are Better Twofold
Flying for Christmas
Christmas and Emily’s Fate
New Year, New Relationship
Canonical-Esque Crack Fic {Edited}
Off-The-Wall Crazy Crack Fic
Coming Home to Their Unremarkable House
Little Samantha’s Life in Capture
Car Wrekt
Friendship Fix (According to Various Authors) Part 1
Friendship Fix (According to Various Authors) Part 2
Valentine’s Day, the Platonic Way
MSR Kicks Platonic Valentine’s to the Curb
Mulder and Scully Fight Insomnia
Scully’s Arcadian Birthday
The X-File That Started It All
Diana Fowl(ey) Play-- All Parts
S9 Mulder Stays or Returns While the Mytharc Barrels On
Anasazi– Shot and Emotionally Fraught
Pranks and Other April Fics
Celebrating Passover and Easter
Poll Results: Fic Niches and Polls
Fics That Deserve More Comments (Part I)
Fics That Deserve More Comments (Part II)
Fics That Deserve More Comments (Part III)
Fics that Deserve More Comments (Part IV)
Fic Moments That “Hit Different”
Fics That Fit My Niche "Dad!Mulder" Likes
MORE Fics That Fit My Niche “Dad!Mulder” Likes
Dad!Mulder, His "Mini Me"s, and Sports
Fight the Future Fics (Part I)
Fight the Future Fics (Part II)
Crazy X-Cops (and Watching the Tragic Ep. Later)
S9, The Season of Secret Dad (Long Fics)
MOTW but Rinse and Repeat
The Field Where I Fix-It Fic-ed
Beefy Revival Mulder
S8 Mulder Resurrects to a Miracle
X-Files Collector’s Edition: Mulder, Scully, and Scents
A Short Fic Tribute to Samantha's 50th Anniversary
Mulder, To Jew or Not to Jew
It’s the Most HTGSC Time of Year
Mulder and Scully and Dancing
Sins of the Eaten Flesh
Mulder, Scully, and Courthouse Weddings
Cars and Conversations (Part I)
Cars and Conversations (Part II)
Bill Scully, MSR, and Pain (Part I)
Reviving that Love
~~~Curated Authors Collection / Short Entries~~~
randomfoggytiger’s Son of Egypt
randomfoggytiger's Fictober Wrap Up
randomfoggytiger’s Chariots of Fire
Eight Nights of Mulder 2023
randomfoggytiger’s “Mr. Mulder, I Know Something About You”
randomfoggytiger’s “You Up For Joining Us?”
randomfoggytiger’s “Think He’ll Call You Tonight?”
randomfoggytiger’s ”You're Not Here, Dana-- You're a Million Miles Away"
randomfoggytiger’s "You're Only Going to End Up Hurting Yourself"
randomfoggytiger’s The Hospital Where You Slept
randomfoggytiger’s "I Know You. It’s What I Do."
randomfoggytiger’s “I Think It’s About Fate”
A Happy Family (Curated Baroness Blixen’s S9)
Curated Baroness Blixen’s Millennium Fics
Curated Jamie Greco
Alligator Moon by jordan
Still Waters by XP1
Everything But the Kitchen Sink by Amy Schatz
Morse Cody by grumpysimon
Fox’s Den I/II/III by Thalia D’Muse
Curated suitablyaggrieved/ScullyLovesQueequeg’s Cancer Arc Fics
Haze and necromance by astronaught
fragility by homecomingserf
Just Another Day on the Oil by Vickie Moseley
Skyland Mountain (AU) by JenAndrews
My Favorites Curated Fics and Quotes by suitablyaggrieved
X-Files Fic That Irons Out the Mytharc... by touchstonea
Curated muldertxf Fics
Curated melforbes Fics
Curated settle-down-frohike Fics
Curated Baroness Blixen’s Car Conversations
~~~X-Files Fan Fiction Resources~~~
Collected Resources
~~~Analysis~~~
Mailboxes in Arcadia: Allegory, Leitmotif, and Chekhov’s Gun
Arcadia Analysis: Scully Was Enjoying Herself Immensely
Arcadia Analysis: Mulder’s Struggle
Arcadia Analysis: Their Worst Nightmares and Trauma Responses
Babylon Dance: An Alternative
Mulder Did Not “Lose Himself” in His Early VCU Days
Biogenesis’s BIG Problem with the Alien-Human Hybrid Virus
One Son: An Intense, One-Shot Analysis of “You’re Making This Personal”
Never Again: An Intensive Essay
Mulder: Sick Fic Vs. Reality
MSR Communication Summed Up
Mulder and Scully’s Most Defining Moment-- “You. Help. Me.”
Charlie Scully in Beyond the Sea
S8 Scully Would Not Have Let Essence and Existence Happen
Mulder Would Never Let Scully Walk Away with Words Left Unsaid
Mulder’s Necessary Emotional Growth in One Breath
The Mulder Family In-Depth (Part I): Colony and End Game
The Mulder Family In-Depth (Part II): The Past Is Important to the Present
The Mulder Family In-Depth (Part III): Dissecting the Dynamics in Demons
The Mulder Family In-Depth (Part IV-1): The Death and Redemption of the Man Who “Threw In”
The Mulder Family In-Depth (Part IV-2): Bill Mulder’s Tainted Legacy
The Mulder Family In-Depth (Part V): Tena Mulder’s Relationships Begin to Change
The Mulder Family In-Depth (Part VI): Talitha Cumi and Tena’s Lies
The Mulder Family In-Depth (Part VII): Childhood Damage in Herrenvolk
The Mulder Family In-Depth (Part VIII): Tena, Amor Fati, and Who’s the Daddy
The Mulder Family In-Depth (Part IX): Tena Mulder’s Suicide and Saving Mulder from Himself
The Mulder Family In-Depth (Part X): Samantha, Spitfire and Stardust
Mulder Was a Father, Even in the Desert
S8 Scully Healing Before Deadalive
We Don’t Value Skinner Enough
Scully’s Complete Change From One Breath to Herrenvolk
S5 Is a Pretty Dark Time for Mulder
The Glaring Ideological Difference Between Mulder and Scully
I Wish: Post Three Words and Mulder
Ascension: Mulder and Maggie’s Bond
Mulder Saw That Scully Was Alone in Redux II
The Scully Family In-Depth (Part I): Childhood and The Pilot
The Scully Family In-Depth (Part II): The First Christmas Death
The Scully Family In-Depth (Part III): A Facade and a Funeral
The Scully Family In-Depth (Part IV): Luthor Lee Boggs, Love, and Letting Go
The Scully Family In-Depth (Part V): Miracles, Lyle Parker, and Psychic Charlie?
The Scully Family In-Depth (Part VI): Maggie Scully and Mulder Meet
The Scully Family In-Depth (Part VII): Mulder, Maggie, Melissa, and the Snake
The Scully Family In-Depth (Part VIII): Maggie Calls Mulder "Fox"
The Scully Family In-Depth (Part IX): Mulder and the Two Scully Sisters
The Scully Family In-Depth (Part X): One Breath and the Scully Men
The Scully Family In-Depth (Part XI): The Last Conversations of One Melissa Scully
The Scully Family In-Depth (Part XII): Prophecy, Death, and the Question of Fate
The Scully Family In-Depth (Part XIII): The Erosion of Scully’s Security, on Tape
The Scully Family In-Depth (Part XIV): When Nature Turns So Cruel
The Scully Family In-Depth (Part XV): "Other Fathers", Deleted Scenes, and "Things to Prove"
The Scully Family In-Depth (Part XVI): Crouching Cancer, Hidden Motives
Spooky Jr. Was Born in a Ghost Town
Mulder Is a Brooder; and Scully Is His Concluder
Scully and Christmas Ghosts
I Love the Unanswered Questions of the X-Files
Mulder Respects Scully’s Medical Choices in the Most Baffling Ways
Scully’s Failures and Her Villains
Mulder Has Max Fenig’s Cap in Beyond the Sea
Scully Is the Conduit Conductor and Mulder Is the Dancer
Mulder Didn’t Use Scully’s Apartment Key Until He “Belonged”
Frohike is THE Man
Mulder and Scully Picked Exes With the Most Red Flag Names Possible
Mulder, the Arcadia Trophy Husband
Mulder Trauma Responses: Fight, Flight, Freeze, or Fawn?
Scully Trauma Responses: Fight, Flight, Freeze, or Fawn?
Arcadia Mulder and His Pillows
How Scully Taught Mulder to Hug
Alpha In-Depth: All Parts
Mulder and Dreams
Milagro In-Depth: All Parts
How the Ghosts Stole Christmas In-Depth: Full Analysis
Scully's Speech in HTGSC Proves Mulder Is Her Ouroboros
Mulder and Scully Didn’t Want a “Network” Outside of Each Other
All Souls, Lost Girls, and Grief
Mulder’s Alien Baby Baby Trauma In-Depth (Part I): Waking Up to Miracles
Mulder’s Alien Baby Baby Trauma In-Depth (Part II): PTSD and Guilt
Mulder’s Alien Baby Baby Trauma In-Depth (Part III): "Processing" How to Fit Back into a Healing World
Mulder’s Alien Baby Baby Trauma In-Depth (Part IV): Passive Mulder Turns Passive-Aggressive
Mulder’s Alien Baby Baby Trauma In-Depth (Part V): The Mutual Pain of Reconnection
Mulder’s Alien Baby Baby Trauma In-Depth (Part VI): Bonds Once Forged Cannot Be Broken
Mulder’s Alien Baby Baby Trauma In-Depth (Part VII): Trickery, Terror, and Tears
Movies Were Mulder's Comfort Placebo Pre-Scully
Mulder and "Killing" Scully
Scully, Snakes, and Reincarnation
CSM Inflicted Insanity On the Syndicate
Mulder’s Little Smile in the Paper Hearts Morgue
Mulder and Scully and the Graves of Many Little Girls
Elegy: A Lie Between Two Truths
Mulder and His Nests
Mulder’s Dichotomy in Three Words
Skinner’s Regrets
Fire and False Romance, Ice and Love
All IVF Roads Lead Away from The Unnatural and to Millennium
X-Cops and Vince Gilligan’s Mulder
The Cancer Arc and Scully's Reliance on Mulder's Strength
Tomboy Scully and Pretty Boy Mulder
Mulder and Scully's Love Story: Season 1
You’re a Magician, Scully
"Proving" Mulder Knew He Was the Father of Scully's Baby
Mulder and Scully Broke Each Other’s Patterns
AU Samantha and Schizogeny Thoughts
Explaining the Never Again Script
Dreams, Alternate Realities, and Agency
One Breath Walked So Firewalker (and Episodes Proceeding It) Could Run
The List: Setting the Stage for Scully’s Loneliness and Mulder’s Panic
Elegy Explanation (and Realization)
Scully and Matters of the Heart: S1-4
Gethsemane, Bill Scully Apologia, and Maggie the Emergency Contact
Mulder: Jewish or Religious References (and His S8 Funeral)
Little Green Men and Teliko Parallels
I Want to Believe: A Character Study in Disordered Writing
HTGSC: Old Tricks and New Lessons
Mulder and Vulnerability
Developed Psychic Ability and Death
Psychics Developed Their Abilities Through Alien DNA
Attractive Monsters and Mulder
Disproving CSM’s Conjecture in En Ami
An Evolution of Mulder and Scully’s Forehead Kisses
Bill Scully Kept Melissa Scully’s Photo in Baby Matthew’s Room
Update: The Therapist in The Red and the Black
Scully's Abduction, Emily Sim, and the Lost Scully Baby
Mulder’s a Big Wig in the Conspiracy Community (and Colonization Thoughts)
Mulder and Scully, Past Lives, and the White Buffalo Calf
Scully the Honest, Mulder the Relentless
The X-Files and Werewolves
An Avoidance Shared by Two
Scully and Emily Parallels
Dana Scully and Relationships: Initial Commitment and Cyclical Self-Doubt
Scully’s Survival Broke The Field Where I Died’s Cycle
Diana Fowley, the Four-Poster Bed Instigator (Perhaps)
Dreamland II: Golf Clubs, Diana Fowley, and Mulder’s Father
~~~Typing~~~
How to "Type" Personality Types: An Ultimate Resource
MULDER, The Spooky INTP
{{Extraction: Proving Mulder Is Not an INFJ/INFP}}
SCULLY, The Enigmatic ISTJ
Mulder and Scully: Love and Touch for INTPs/ISTJs
Dissecting ‘One Son’ (Part I)
Dissecting ‘One Son’ (Part II)
‘Never Again’ and Fear
KRYCEK, An Unstoppable Manipulator
INTPs In Their Own Words
SKINmanNER, The Bald and the Beautiful
MAGGIE, The Passionate Scully
MELISSA, The Soulful ISFP
BILL SCULLY, Junior and Senior (and Charlie?)
~~~Musicals/Fan Vids/AMVs~~~
Fight Club (Finale)
Fight Club: Finale Redone with Less Kathy Griffiths
TINH: Scully’s Solo
S2 Abduction: Mulder’s Torment
Drivin’ Right Along
Hungry: Everything Is Food
Our Town: Everything Is Food
Krycek and Marita: You’re My Little Choochie Face
Syzygy: Everything You Can Do I Can Do Better
Mulder and Samantha: Miracle of Miracles
Amor Fati: If I Never Knew You
Arcadia: People Will Say We’re in Love
Scully, Far from the Home She Loves
CSM and Diana: The Riddle
The Mulders: Sunrise, Sunset
HTGSC: Christmas Can Can
Melissa: Mother Earth and Father Time
Monday: There’s Always Tomorrow
Memento Mori: I Bring You a Song
Pilot: I Ride Alone
Milagro: Hellfire
Darkness Falls: Walk Outside
Emily: Come to Me
~~~Extras~~~
React: "Return to Me" from the POV of Someone Averse to RomComs
Personality Typing: Return to Me
Personality Typing: Bringing Up Baby
React: Watching I Want to Believe for the First Time (and Losing My Mind)
Personality Typing: Hank Moody, Maggie Scully, and ESTPs
What Happens Later: Misdirection and Miscommunication
What Happens Later: ESTJs, ESFPs, and Building Back Love ‘N Trust
David Duchovny’s Face: an Aesthetics Study
Seasonal Color Theory: a Reference Guide
Seasonal Color Analysis: David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson
Seasonal Color Analysis: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, and Their Colors
Kibbe Body Types: Gillian Anderson
Kibbe Body Types: David Duchovny
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What Survival Looks Like at Home
From 'What Survival Looks Like at Home' by Helen Townsend, from Beacon House & Inner World Work (PDF)
Quick cheat sheet:
Noticing Freeze
Bored, not interested
Confused, forgetful
Distracted, not listening
Clumsy
Talking about something else
Not moving to where you’ve asked
Scanning the room
Wide eyed, pupils might dilate
Daydreaming, staring into space
Grounding Freeze
Stay with me, don’t leave me
Tell me I’m ok & that I am safe
Watching TV
Deep breathing
Spinning on a swing
Climbing & hanging
Rolling or cycling down a hill
Digging in mud or sand
Jumping on a trampoline
Do my chores with me
Gently wonder where I have gone & invite me back to you
If I have forgotten what I was supposed to be doing, remind me again gently
Hot chocolate & toast
A warm bath & a warm towel
A soft teddy for bedtime
Noticing Flight
Hyperactive, manic, silly
Aggressive, threatening: stiffening up, clenching fists
Running away, escaping, disappearing, hiding under the table/bed/sofa
Clumsy
Disruptive, loud & noisy
Can’t cope with free play
Can’t follow house rules
Not doing what you’ve asked
Lonely
Keeping super busy
Baby talk/silly voices
Bumping into people
Needing to get into the car/house/park first
Grounding Flight
Keep me close by
Find me again happily or patiently
Deep breathing
Give me a familiar & easy chore
Crunchy foods – carrot sticks, a biscuit, a rice cake or crisps
Tell me that I am safe with you
Hanging from monkey bars
Talk through what you think I am finding tricky using a kind voice
Heavy blankets
Create a safe space where I can hide away I when I need to
Tug of war
Cup of warm milk or hot chocolate
Hot water bottle & a soft teddy
Recognize I sometimes find 'normal' family life threatening
Accept that if I feel threatened, I feel in real danger.
If you send me to do something & I forget, just patiently ask again
Noticing Fight
Hot and bothered
Argumentative, angry and aggressive
Controlling, demanding and inflexible
Lie or blaming
Unable to concentrate on one thing
Unable to follow the house rules
Confrontational
Disrespectful
Disregarding of others, pushing away friends/family members
Shouting, loud and noisy
Immature
Grounding Fight
Tell me you love me even when my I push you away
Don’t punish me for being cross; reward me with your kindness and love for getting calm again
Keep me safe from hurting myself
Match my energy
Deep breathing
Chewy foods
Support me socially
Hanging, swinging and climbing
Warm bath with lots of bubbles
Warm milk or a hot chocolate
Hot water bottle
A super soft teddy and/or blanket
Give me a task that makes me feel important
Connect with me and show me empathy before exploring the consequences of my behavior
Create somewhere safe to go to so I can calm down
Make things predictable. Tell me about changes before they happen, especially if strangers are coming to the house or I’m going somewhere new
Accept I might not know why I behaved in that way & I might not remember what happened
Listen and acknowledge how I feel, even if you see it differently, it will help me feel listened to
Noticing Submit
Unhappy, low mood
Alone or withdrawn
Fidgety but not disruptive, anxious
Never questioning or asking questions
Never drawing unnecessary attention
Yes or no answers - doing just enough to avoid being noticed, unable to think
Quiet & passive, compliant
Grounding Submit
See me, listen to me
Give me small repetitive things to do
Weighted blanket
Building with Lego or Play-doh
Tell me I am safe
Deep breathing
Swinging
Let me spend quiet time just with you
Understand that social media might symbolizes a comforting connection
Hot chocolate and a crunchy biscuit
Wrap me up in a soft blanket & watch TV
Understand that playing computer games, lets me be by myself somewhere safe
Recognize I am hurting inside & might need professional help
Know that I am easily bullied, look out for this, don’t expect me to tell you.
Notice I will say what I think you want me to say
Be aware that I am an easy target & can be coerced easily to keep the peace
Know I can't cope being the center of attention
Watch for me removing myself
Warm bath and a warm towel
Warm pyjamas
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X-Files Scully Trauma Responses: Fight, Flight, Freeze, or Fawn?
Picking up from this post about Mulder, we have Scully's turn!
There are four main trauma responses: Fight, Flight, Freeze, and Fawn (taken from the book Complex CPTSD: From Surviving to Thriving by Pete Walker-- see Disclaimers section below for info.) In short: Fight Types respond to stress with physical intimidation or verbal bullying; Flight Types run as far as they can from danger (physically or metaphorically), fleeing or distracting their minds with obsessive-compulsive work; Freeze Types disassociate, seeing fight and flight as futile and becoming numb to life; and Fawn Types try to win favor from their oppressor, leaning co-dependently on others.
Scully's Primary Trauma Response Type
Flight Types
"A Flight response is triggered when a person responds to a perceived threat by fleeing; or, symbolically, by launching into hyperactivity. .... Extreme Flight types are like machines with a switch stuck in the 'on' position. They are obsessively and compulsively driven by the unconscious belief that perfection will make them safe and loveable. They rush to achieve. They rush as much in thought in action, compulsion."
Beyond the Sea explored the breadth of Scully's Flight Type Trauma Response: Scully tried to avoid the pain of her father's death by distracting herself with work before the funeral; but was forced to sit in her feelings of inadequacy and beg for reassurance of his fatherly pride from her mother. "Was he at all proud of me?" is the backbone of her type, just as it was in relation to her partnership with Mulder, her daughterly duties to Maggie, her sisterly duties to Bill, and her professional duties as a medical doctor, Academy instructor, and field agent. Furthermore, this episode laid the groundwork for the infamous hallway scene in Fight the Future. As Rob Bowman stated: "‘I need you, I need you.’ That’s a theme of the movie – Mulder needs Scully. And never before has he come to that understanding quite so strongly as he does in this story. So she’s running because she’s afraid that he’s going to talk her out of it, and so the best thing she can do is hit the elevator button and go, go, go."
Classic Flight Type, classic.
(An interesting note: As stated above, Scully's "machine" is stuck in the "on" position-- the exact opposite of Mulder's type, which is stuck in the "off" position. Scully's traumatic response is to bury herself in obsessive-compulsive disordered behavior to distract from the lack of control she has over her life--finding refuge in long-working hours or needlessly consuming chores-- after her father's death, Emily's death, Mulder's disappearance and death, her mother's death, her son's fake death, etc. While Scully seeks out tasks, people, and duties from life (a.k.a. whether that be her on-the-clock job or extra busywork on weekends and holidays), Mulder retreats from people during his traumatic responses, becoming reclusive and alienated, dungeonIng himself away from life in his basement or leather couch.)
But what if her primary trauma response isn't working fast enough to combat fear or danger? In this case, Scully will develop a secondary trauma response, the polar opposite of her dominant one:
Flight-Fawn Types
Flight-Fawn Types (also known as Super Nurses, ironically) turn the obsessive-compulsive workaholism of the Flight Type into the bend-over-backwards self-imposed slavery of the Fawn Type. As Pete Walker explains: "The Fawn-Flight Type is the most typically seen in the busy-holic parent, nurse, or administrative assistant who works from dawn until bedtime providing for the needs of the house, the hospital, or company. He" [she] "compulsively takes care of everyone else's needs with hardly a gesture towards his own. The Fawn-Flight is sometimes a misguided Mother Theresa-type who escapes the pain of her self-abandonment by seeing herself as the perfect, selfless caregiver. She further distances herself from her own pain by obsessively-compulsively rushing from one person in need to another. Some Fawn-Flight clients become OCD-like clean-aholics."
As we know, Scully fashions herself as Mulder's partner, primary caretaker, and right-hand Starbuck, while also acting as his translator, justifier, and report writer to the higher ups.
When Mulder messes up in all areas of his life, she flies in to patch him up and cover for him. This, of course, is fulfilling... but it's also distracting, purposefully so. Her Flight-Fawn Response also emerges its head whenever she tries to placate her brother Bill: cut off from Flight, she will utilize Fawn-- letting him ramble, pushing back only a little while pleading for understanding-- before ultimately volleying back to Flight whenever he gives her enough room to squeeze by and make her escape. Even on her last legs during the cancer arc, Scully still got swept up into verifying Mulder's quest against her previously expressed wishes--Flight-Fawn in full effect.
Why Scully Is Not Primarily Fight, Freeze, or Fawn
Fight Types
"A Fight response is triggered when a person suddenly responds aggressively to something threatening. ...Fight Types are unconsciously driven by the belief that power and control can create safety, assuage abandonment, and secure love...." Fight Types often become bullies or narcissists to their loved ones as well as their enemies if left unchecked. At their worst, they can become demanding, demeaning, and punishing because they equate strength as power exerted to weaken a threat. Fight is the first Trauma Response all humans develop; and if it's used effectively, Fight Responders stick to this "effective" method rather than trying out others (the second Flight, third Freeze, or fourth Fawn.) This translates to a bitter outlook on the world, always suspicioning the motives of others in cruel or judgmental ways. Severely traumatized Flight Types usually grew up in homes where they had to fight back against physical abuse or protect others from it. Dana Scully, while aggressive and cantankerous in the face of sniveling injustice, never uses her anger as a way to control or manipulate others; nor does she see other humans as self-interested threats.
Freeze Types
"A Freeze Response is triggered when a person, realizing resistance is futile, gives up, numbs out into dissociation, and/or collapses, as if accepting the inevitability of being hurt…. The Freeze Response, also known as the Camouflage Response, also triggers a survivor into hiding, isolating, and avoiding human contact. The Freeze Type can be so frozen in the retreat mode that is seems as if their "Starter” button is stuck in the “off” position. While all 4 F Types commonly suffer from social anxiety as well, Freeze Types typically take a great deal more refuge in solitude." These Types have learned from a young age that fighting back will only get you punished and that fleeing will only get you reprimanded; so, they collapse in on themselves instead. Dana Scully wields her independent agency freely and often, so this is definitely not her primary Type.
Fawn Types
"Fawn response is triggered when a person responds to threat by trying to be pleasing or helpful in order to appease and forestall an attacker.... Fawn Types seek safety by merging with the wishes, needs, and demands of others. They act as if they believe that the price of admission to any relationship is the forfeiture of all their needs, rights, preferences, and boundaries. The disenfranchisement of the Fawn Type begins in childhood... learns early that a modicum of safety and attachment can be gained by becoming the helpful and compliant servant of... exploitive parents." (As an aside, this type is formed from having at least one narcissistic parent who beat wore down the first natural human response-- Fight-- the second response-- Flight-- and the third response-- Freeze-- until all that is left is Fawn.) Dana Scully has never kowtowed or cheaply sold her self-respect to appease to others; and has only ever dipped into the Fawn Response as a capitulation or bargaining tool, hence why it is her secondary and not primary response.
Thank you for reading~
Enjoy!
**Disclaimers: Most of the information was obtained from Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving by Pete Walker, a private counselor and lecturer for thirty-five years. As a victim of CPTSD himself, he made a study of its victims and helped craft a system for CPTSD recoverees to understand themselves and progressively heal. (Highly recommend his book-- excellent.)
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