3. What Is Burnout From a Brain And Nervous System Perspective

In this episode I share 4 common misunderstandings about stress, burnout and healing, which made me so much worse . When I learnt about the brain and the nervous systems part in burnout, what really stresses the body and how to fix it, I healed quickly. Within six months I was back working fulltime and exercising again. In this episode I will tell you my mistakes, and what I did instead to overcome burnout, fight my fatigue and stop my brain fog. 

 

Key takeaways:

Stress is more than just too much to do, it's also all sorts of negative feelings and emotions, like high demands or worrying. 

Time outside the job isn’t necessary recovery. Training hard or taking care of family is just as demanding.  

Physical symptoms like dizziness and brain fog doesn’t mean there’s something physical wrong with you. It’s the brain and nervous systems way to say you need to wind down. Your brain forms neural pathways of feeling bad.

Occupying your mind with your burnout and the symptoms will make your brain and nervous system stressed and give you even more symptoms. It will also make you even more sensitive for the symptoms, making small things feel strong. This is called sensitization.

You can change your neural pathways and your sensitization by changing your thoughts.