Things that help can be connection, physical activity, creative self-expression or breathing. Don’t deal with the stress in a way that causes stress in itself. The way you deal with the stressors are seperate to the way you deal with your stress, she says. “It can be really threatening and maybe a little uncomfortable that you actually have to go and feel your feelings.” Some women end up in hospital with chronic stress or chronic pain. “Under some circumstances it’s really important to have those times where you just check out, you close the door, you eat ice cream directly out of a container using a potato chip as your spoon and you watch terrible television.”īut if you don’t complete the cycle, you can end up unwell.
Sometimes it’s important to numb the stress, she says. Eventually the lion gives up and how you feel at the end, when the lion finally goes away is celebratory, you love your friends and family, you’re grateful to be alive and that’s the complete cycle.”īut, we’re not really chased by lions anymore, our stresses tend to be things like traffic or the patriarchy, she says.īecause there’s nothing for our body to recognise its’ completed our stress cycle, we need to tell it by doing physical activity, like jumping up and down in our driveway, dancing in our living room or going for a run. "Or suppose you run back to your village… and one of your fellow villagers opens your door and is like ‘come on, run in here, run in here', and they slam the door when your’e inside and you both stand with your shoulder against it while the lion tries to get you. On the savannah of Africa, a lion comes after you, your body notices that and it floods with adrenaline and cortisol and glucocorticoids, all in preparation to help you run away from the lion and at this point there’s only two possible outcomes either you get eaten by the lion, or chased by the hippo because it turns out hippos are actually the most dangerous land mammal on earth, apart from humans, and if you get eaten by the lion then none of the rest of this matters. “It’s intended to help us survive stresses like being chased by a lion. Stress suppresses your immune system, it suppresses your digestion, it suppresses your reproduction function, changes your cardiovascular functioning so if you stay in that state for a long time it doesn’t just wear you out emotionally, your body will degrade gradually.” “Your brain is the cause of it and then there are physical consequences when that happens because all emotions are physiological events that happen in your body.
The term burnout first appeared in 1975 as having three characteristics emotional exhaustion, a sense of decreased accomplishment and depersonalisation or diminishment of empathy and compassion.įor women in particular, the emotional exhaustion is key, says Dr Nagoski.
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