Burnout: When Rest Stops Working
Burnout is a word everyone uses and no one can formally diagnose — it sits in the ICD-11 as an "occupational phenomenon," explicitly excluded from being a medical condition, yet the exhaustion people describe is measurably physiological. This episode works through what the research actually establishes: how chronic stress flattens the cortisol rhythm so that rest stops restoring, why Sweden's two-decade-old exhaustion disorder diagnosis is the closest anyone has come to formalizing it, and what the evidence says about recovery — CBT targeting stress avoidance and rumination, graded return to…
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