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"It is usually the most profoundly abandoned child - "the lost child" - who is forced to "choose" and habituate to the freeze response. Unable to successfully employ fight, flight or fawn responses, the freeze type's defenses develop around classical dissociation, which allows him to disconnect from experiencing his abandonment pain, and protects him from risky social interactions - any of which might trigger feelings of being reabandoned."