Dopamine Depletion
Dopamine is responsible for motivation and reward. Chronic stress reduces dopamine activity, making tasks feel meaningless or unfulfilling. This is why burnout can make you feel detached or unmotivated.
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Burnout is a prolonged stress response that overloads your brain’s systems, mainly involving three key areas: the prefrontal cortex, the amygdala, and the HPA axis (hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis).
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Increasing Dopamine
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How to boost it: While unhealthy habits like drinking, caffeine, eating sugar or consuming certain recrea...
Battling Burnout
It is the result of the prolonged chronic stress of situations that leave people feeling a lack of control in their lives.
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