When Your Stress System Stops Answering
Daniel wrote in describing months of moving, DIY, and a thirteen-month-old with no family nearby — and a fatigue that felt deeper than tiredness. This episode works through what the research actually says about burnout: why the WHO files it as an occupational phenomenon rather than a diagnosis, why parental burnout falls outside that official definition by design, and what the biology suggests. The stress-response model points to a flip — early chronic stress revs the system up, prolonged stress blunts it — which would explain why ordinary rest doesn't touch it. The biomarker evidence is…
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