3d • General discussion
Burn Out
Just reading this study "All the cerebral functional activities mentioned above are also involved in integration of cognitive, emotional, and autonomic activities. 50 The neurotoxic effects of persistent stress-induced morphological changes and of functional dysregulation of neural pathways may explain the symptoms of clinical burnout. These include impaired executive functioning, attention control, and working memory; emotional exhaustion and dysregulation; and irritability, anxiousness, and physical fatigue.8,16,44,47,48 Individuals with clinical burnout must invest more mental energy in solving cognitive problems, resulting in mental exhaustion, and they need more time to recover mentally after the termination of cognitive effort.13,16 However, it is unclear whether or to what extent the deficits in executive functioning, and the alterations in structural and functional activity of the brain, affect higher cognitive functions such as judgment and decision-making. 16"
How much burn out is being misdiagnosed as depression I wonder?
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