Burnout: The secret to solving the stress cycle
The monks, yoga masters, and meditation experts are responding to reality. They muster the appropriate stress response for a situation and let it do its thing. The rest of us are responding not only to the actual stressor but also to the anticipation and lingering reverberations of it. And to make matters worse, the more we “learn” or hang on to th
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Chronic Stressor → Chronic Stress. Sometimes your brain activates a stress response, you do the thing it says, and it doesn’t change the situation:
Emily Nagoski, Amelia Nagoski • Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
In previous generations, depression was likely to result from internal conflicts between what we want to do and what authority figures – parents, teachers, institutions – wish to prevent us from doing. But in our high-performance society, it’s feelings of inadequacy, not conflict, that bring on depression. The pressure to be the best workers, lover
... See more- emotional exhaustion—the fatigue that comes from caring too much, for too long; 2. depersonalization—the depletion of empathy, caring, and compassion; and 3. decreased sense of accomplishment—an unconquerable sense of futility: feeling that nothing you do makes any difference.1