What does it take to get your adrenaline pumping?

Your friend is forgetting one important point and that is individualism, not everyone reacts the same way to everything, what is scary for one person is either neutral or very exciting to someone else. we all react to different stimuli in the environment. similar in certain stimuli, the body will produce different responses all given to us for self preservation. I will give you an example, once I walked into a back yard and this big scary dog jumped out at me. My body's reaction was to freeze in my tracks, yes I could have got hurt except fear took over, and I didn't jump out the way, yet I didn't feel afraid more taken off guard than anything else, a my body was still reacted it reacted very quickly I froze, this is called the fear or flight theory of psychology, by William James, america's first psychologist. The body released its chemicals and produced this response, your friend might argue because I didn't run away my body was reacting slowly, but no I didn't take flight but my body took fright. Why would a body reaction in that way and still be a defense reaction? Image the wild and it is night, like it was when this happened, a smaller animals are victims to prey, to stand still will save the life of some of these animals rather than running away, an eagle can catch a mouse running but may not see it if it is motionless.

I definitely think it's normal that you are so calm. Some people are just like that. When my mom had a grand mal seizure in the middle of the night, everyone freaked out but me. I was very calm! But you know what? If I hadn't been calm, we would've never have gotten her to the hospital and there would have been no one to talk to the emergency crew on the phone, which is important. That's why we need people like us, for jobs like EM squad, and for police and firefighters-people who can stay calm in a crisis. Not everyone is naturally like that, but I do think the more crisis you go through, the more you can develop that. So, yeah, I think you are totally normal, and you have developed a great skill-it could even save your life someday! Being calm in a crisis is a good thing. That being said, it would take something like jumping out of a plane, or being REALLY angry at someone, before my adrenaline would pump! Rollercoasters don't even do much for me anymore because I've been on all of them so many, it's no big deal. I think doing something new, and a little risky, is an adrenaline rush for me as well...such as starting a new job, or speaking to a large group of people I've never met. I've done public speaking a lot, but if it's for new people, it can get a little scary! :)

Well mine starts when I can't breathe, when I see an Accident, when I fall, and I think that is it You are not abnormal everyone deals different with things

No much does these days. Perhaps if someone were to get violent. Occasionally when my boy that is getting toward manhood begins to challenge me. I stand up to that and my kids say I seem to get big. That would be adrenaline. However, I am pretty even and if anything could use some adrenaline from time to time.

In regards to what gets my adrenaline pumping it is normally due to me getting excieted about something that is happening at the time. But I am the same as you if it is something bad or someone hurt this does not gets my adrenaline pumping as like you they are things that have to be done. Also I think that it could be as your friend suggests that this is due to what we have been through in our own lives.

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