The blue figure is experiencing an amygdala hijack. The red figure is experiencing something worse, and almost nobody has a famous name for it. Daniel Goleman put "amygdala hijack" in a bestseller, so the left state has cultural shorthand. The amygdala fires in roughly 12 milliseconds, releases cortisol and norepinephrine, and the prefrontal cortex goes offline before your conscious mind has even registered what happened. Acute phase lasts 20 to 60 minutes, which is how long stress hormones…