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Your Body Knows You’re Burned Out
Extreme stress can also lead to burnout. Burnout is a psychological syndrome that emerges after a prolonged response to chronic stress, where we become exhausted, detached, and cynical. It is often associated with work, but it can happen in other aspects of our lives,
Ivy Ross • Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us
Covid brought in its train a parallel epidemic of worker exhaustion. The stress and social dislocation resulting from a poorly managed, seemingly interminable public health emergency put limits on what workers could tolerate. Yet burnout’s ubiquity cannot be attributed to Covid alone.