Who hasn't heard of burnout by now? This expression has become commonplace and is synonymous with burnout. Burnout and stress are intimately linked and this exhaustion does not only have a professional origin.
Stress is a normal reaction that brings into play a series of mechanisms (circulation, energy, vigilance, etc.) thanks to which the body can adapt to any situation. Stress is largely related to cortisol, which is also called the stress hormone. This hormone is produced by the adrenals (2 small glands located at the top of the kidneys).
If various stresses (professional, social, family, environmental, etc.) are too numerous and repetitive, these adaptive mechanisms are overwhelmed. The body's "adaptive" reserves are depleted and, more seriously, the body can no longer recharge these batteries or recover. The nights are no longer enough and a complete nervous and hormonal exhaustion occurs. The body, in total maladjustment, says "damn" and goes to the point of complete exhaustion of the adrenal glands and our reserves.
Because we are all different, the ability or limit to manage stress is unique to each of us. Indeed, each person comes into the world with his or her own adaptive faculties and a more or less solid and efficient neuro-endocrine axis.
The very constitution of the person depends on hereditary baggage (terrain), on the conditions of childbirth and pregnancy, but also on the personal background and life conditions (childhood, couple, fulfilling or exhausting work, etc.), on emotional and physical shocks or traumas (illnesses, accidents), on diet (acidosis, vitamins, minerals, etc.) and on pollution (endocrine disruptors, drugs, vaccines, heavy metals, etc.). The permanent submission to pressures and pollutions, in particular endocrine disruptors omnipresent in our environment, only increases this adaptive fragility.
It is obvious that the current conditions of life (at 100 per hour) and work (obligatory productivity and output), in which our life seems to "have no more sense" (routine metro-busy-sleep), tend to exhaust the organism, the adrenal glands and the adaptive mechanisms.
We come to ask ourselves "is this really what life is all about? ".
Running all the time... Eating in a hurry with foods that are empty of energy and denatured... No longer having the time to take care of oneself or to enjoy the simple pleasures of life:
Recharging "our batteries" (and thereby regenerating the adrenal glands and the thyroid) through sports, creative and recreational activities (leisure) is ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL to get out of this impasse and this state of "living" or survival.
Changing one's state of mind, finding a "higher" goal in one's life, a little flame or spark, faith (whatever one calls this path of life or "soul"), acting in full consciousness through fulfilling and regenerating actions is without a doubt one of the paths that may allow one to escape this crazy spiral that leads to burnout and maladjustment.
