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Anthony Goldner explains how cortisol spikes during fight-or-flight to give you energy to act. But in severe burnout, cortisol fails to rise properly, leaving your body stuck and unable to mobilize for either response.
Anthony Goldner explains how cortisol spikes during fight-or-flight to give you energy to act. But in severe burnout, cortisol fails to rise properly, leaving your body stuck and unable to mobilize for either response.
a little in-depth about cortisol is it's your fight or flight. So if you're in fight, your cortisol levels are going to spike. If you're in flight, one of the two, your cortisol levels are spiking to allow you in order to either fight or flee. That's, that's what's going to happen when you're in burnout and you're in excessive burnout. Your cortisol levels aren't going to spike as high as they should.
So in a way, you're not going to react in either of those ways. You're kind of just going to be like, Still, you're dysregulated.
You're kind of just stagnant.
