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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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ELI5: Why do people who are chronically exhibit suicidal tendencies still experience a fight or flight response?
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Depression and suicidal thoughts are exhibited in a different part of the brain. Fight or Flight is in a primative area of the brain and is ingrained in our nervous system pretty well through evolution. Beings with strong survival instincts will survive over those that don't.