#hyperactivating

Hyperactivating:

This attachment system is on red alert. Threats to responsiveness and availability are unconsciously intensified. Such people evolve strategies to deal with fear. They are needy, anxious; they overreact; they up-regulate emotion. They cling. In short, they force people to react and take notice.

Deactivators:

They down-regulate threat, essentially pretending it does not exist. Expert avoiders, they pretend not to feel at all, although, according to ingenious research, they do respond physiologically. They exist in a kind of heated-up denial.