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Grey's Anatomy · Season 2, Episode 26

Meredith, George and others in “Deterioration of the Fight or Flight Response/Losing My Religion”

[voiceover]

Human beings need a lot of things to feel alive.

Family...

Love...

Sex.

But we only need one thing...

To actually be alive.

We need a beating heart.

When our heart is threatened...

We respond in one of two ways.

We either run...

Or...

We attack.

There's a scientific term for this:

Fight...

Or flight.

It's instinct...

We can't control it.

Or can we?

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