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What causes mental exhaustion?
- Chronic stress: It keeps your brain — and body — on high alert all the time. Over time, this begins to wear away at your well-being.
- Uncertainty
- Work stress: Left unchecked, workplace stress can even evolve into burnout.
- Family issues: Divorce, disagreements, a sick family member and estrangements have a way of following you into all areas of your life.
- Juggling multiple commitments
- Emotional stress: Constant negative feelings, events, and circumstances can make it difficult to relax.
- Poor self-care: Over time this will affect your ability to be resilient in the face of stressful situations.
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The symptoms of mental exhaustion
- Emotional symptoms: Feeling a lack of interest in normal activities, a lack of motivation at work and in your personal life, a sense of languishing or lack of purpose in life, moodiness and irritability, cynicism, doubt, and pessimism, constantly feeling overwhelmed or stres...
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What is mental exhaustion?
Mental exhaustion is a feeling of extreme tiredness, characterized by other feelings including apathy, cynicism, and irritability. You may be mentally exhausted if you’ve recently undergone long-term stress, find it hard to focus on tasks or lack interest in activities you usuall...
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11 strategies for overcoming mental exhaustion
- Eliminate the stressor
- Work-life balance
- Clear your space
- Schedule (and take) regular breaks
- Get outside
- Do something new
- Reduce screen time
- Find positive ways to distract yourself
- Take care of yourself
- Focus on what yo...
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