Tag Archive for: Burnout

Cognitive Engagement vs Forced Learning in AuDHD

Nowadays, Writing is no-longer spontaneous.

Cognitive Engagement is the scientific term for Consistent Learning.
Students will support the more inquisitive “Studying”.
Nothing wrong as far as we don’t compromise the core concept.

A language has Jargons for every profession and generation.
It won’t be long before AI will integrate all languages globally.

No more need for translators on the lookout to a new job.
“Keyword Analysts” would replace “Translators” just fine.

The successful writer of 2026 onwards is a smart blender of keywords into a fiction book.
The same applies to bloggers, reporters, journalists…

However, I don’t give in with my niche friends and partnerships, my revenue streams from Advocacy and practical Help for the Weak, starting from my institutionalized autistic brother and his Community.

I agree with Lord Google on cracking down upon artificial blogs plainly copying data from scientific journals or AI.

I don’t Copy anything. I Research and apply latest findings to my personal experiences.
Most importantly, I use MY SYNTAX for editing my articles.
I shun Academic Writing whenever possible, despite my personal knowledge.
After all, I never claimed to be an MD. 
Neither is this a Medical Platform.

I value my privacy more than Authoritativeness, today’s top arrogant keyword.
Nobody is an Authority online. My physical psychiatrist is, in real life, not on his Clinic’s website.

The Net has become a dog-eat-dog world.
I use the Net. It doesn’t use me and my niche friends.
TRUST is my favorite keyword.

Competition and Burnout.

The message is very explicit: Never Stop Learning.

There is no age for the brain to stop learning. We decide when to retire cognitively, usually in combination with Job Retirement around 65, the perfect recipe for Alzheimer’s in healthy adults.

Although still understudy, it would appear that Learning regularly at one’s own pace, reverses the formation of brain plaques while activating Reward Systems.
I couldn’t agree more, despite in midlife.

 Personal Development.

I coined the expression “Forced Learning” to describe  “Cognitive Overload”.

Cognitive Overload refers to absorbing an excessive amount of information in a given time for competitive play.
This is a common practice in blogging.
They claim that building Authority is key to ranking. False. View numbers are their real value. Mega sites with million followers always outrank beginner bloggers no matter how authoritative.

This is Forced Learning and Writing.
Burnout is the outcome.

I reiterate: the Net will never have my back.





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Emotional processing in ADHD and feeling trapped

Latest research shows the importance of switching tasks for Creativity.

ADHD and Autism are 99% co-morbid.
The real challenge is ADHD leaning towards Novelty, Autism towards Routine.

This high co-morbidity often results in Emotional Conflict.
Nonetheless, the term AuDHD is gaining popularity.

Emotional Conflict 

While ADHDers are fast to boredom, they are also terrified of Unproductiveness.
Unproductiveness is the trigger of Hyperactivity to me.
My way of outlive hyperactivity is over-Commitment, a form of forced routine, see the connection with Autism.

I didn’t take a break from work in over a year.
I took the past week off for the first time and the sense of guilt assails me.
That’s how Burnout manifests in ADHD, Guilt.
The feeling is exacerbated in specific 24/7 jobs. Although most demanding, they are also most rewarding. 
This is the ADHD Trap. I never want to let people down, despite occasional time-off boosts Creativity.

Physical Disconnection 

Physical Disconnection is how psychologists define Creativity Recharge.
Body and Mind have never been more connected, this day and age.
The first message is “Step away from screens”.

Screens create  ‘Mental Blocks’ in the long-run, in addition to killing physical activity.
Mental Blocks are Fixations prompted by long overtime online.

AI validates our thoughts by regrouping them in one category, in so excluding other leisurely distractions.

Leisurely Distractions break Mental Blocks by increasing Creativity, ADHDers warned! For once in a lifetime, I hear Distraction’s Praises, best compliment for ADHDers! Problem is, we’re distracted 24/7.

“Ah shut up, I ve been watching too much TV!” used to say my hero, David Bowie.
Trying to break Mental Blocks with Humor.
I tell you what: it works!

Time to debunk the “Mad Scientist Myth” that those nuts live on science alone.
The Science Popularizer dressed Clown-likes with Einstein’s hair hosted in TV shows, made their time.
My favorite Michio Kaku, physicist, is a huge cars’ lover, despite sporting an Einstein full-blown hair.

Decreased Creativity is a sign of Burnout.

Don’t wait until it is too late.
Sudden drops in dopamine are easily detected in ADHD.
You know that Reward is the only cure.
A Fixation is fake reward.
An indication that ASD Routine is sabotaging your Hippocampus, Hypothalamus and Substantia Nigra, the main elements of the Mesolimbic System.

Early Intervention 

Start by Switching Tasks Online.
Switching Tasks does not mean Change Job, unless you have more appealing options. It is more about Prioritizing.

Follow up with Outdoor Activities.

That’s to stop the Burnout in its initial tracks.

Implement traditional ADHD Strategies to boost Dopamine, either outdoors or indoors.

We know that Visuals and Music are main sources of Inspiration and Reward in ADHD. They are also highly codependent: Music creates Images in the brain, in so doing, enhancing Concentration by abating our most dreaded ghost, Silence.
Most companies recognize that Music increases Productivity in general.
I can even sleep with Bowie in the background.
And pray before bed, despite the omnipresent Jesus.

I will not let Burnout taking over me.
Be vigilant.


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Emotional exhaustion

There is not yet a diagnosis for Burnout, although the syndrome is fully understood. As of today, Mental Health professionals have no options but to include Burnout in MDD.

Burnout is a word invented by Dr. Internet, recently, former Nervous Breakdown. Another example of how Social Media are messing up in Medical.
Languages are no-longer mandatory, Grammar is now referred to as Keywords. Search Engines rely on the trendiest expressions created by Influencers-no qualifications required- in their Search Rating.
No one is typing Nervous Breakdown anymore. 
Burnout has become a popular definition of Exhaustion between teenagers.
MDD and Burnout have a different genesis, though nearly same symptoms.
MDD is involuntary, characterized by Serotonin-deficiency, Hopelessness and Despair. 
Burnout is always self-inflicted upon Sleep-deprivation, Competition, unrealistic Expectations, Envy, pushing us over our Limits.
Limits are not derogatory, i.e. we can be a better paramedic than a physician. 
In fact, Limits are personal Gifts. We have given Limits the synonym to Inferiority.
Experienced nurses know more than junior doctors…
Higher salaries are the main reason for Envy. Unfortunately, our society is Title-oriented, rather than Skill-rewarding.
Think for a moment: what is more important, Money or Wellbeing?

When we push ourselves over our limits, we burn out.
In other words, we don’t accept us．

Social Media only portray successful entrepreneurs.
Do you know that farmers and seafarers are at the forefront of sustainability?
Nobody is unworthy, only the lazy are.

To conclude, Depression is the result of long-term Chronic Stress, treatable pharmacologically.

Burnout is the Loss of Motivation for feeling used, kind of Impostor Syndrome. The sufferer is oftentimes overly proud, narcissistic, self-centered, delusional.
There’s no specific pharmacological treatment. Rest and Counseling work in raising awareness in the individual.
Failure to co-operate leads to MDD.
Self-acceptance is the best cure.
We are all uniquely gifted.




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Fatigue in ASD/ADHD

Medical science cites 6 hours as the least amount of sleep in a 24 hours period. Autistics may well need 8/9 hours. Sleep affects medication and performance.

It is proven that autistics get more tired than the average person.
This is easily understandable since every task requires extra planning and decision making.
I need at least 8 hours of sleep to function, while 4-5 hours is the norm these hectic days.
People pretend to get used to it, despite evidence having long shown how lack of sleep weakens the Immune System and shortens life-expectancy, yet I often feel ‘lazy’ even if I put up long hours at work.

Fatigue is not laziness.
My cause of Fatigue is Anxiety, which in turn triggers Insomnia.
Insomnia is debilitating to me.
That leaves me with two options: double up my meds or call in sick. 
The former is the most likely, though not without consequences the likes of hypertension, encephalitis.
Thus far for ADHD meds.

Avoiding triggers and proper rest is paramount for all.
Regular sleep is crucial in Mood-stability.

Stimulants are the meds of choice for ADHD through enhancing dopamine, the main neurotransmitter involved in reward and motivation.
Reward and motivation have an antidepressant component.
People with ADHD must take them anyhow for studying or working.

Mood-stabilization is the ultimate goal.
We’re still far from it: antipsychotics remain the only option to date.

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