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Emma G. Cartisano
@egcartisano
PhD candidate, Higher Education + Leadership @baylor || writer • speaker • podcaster || basic needs, belonging, thriving, + vulnerability researcher
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Jul 26, 2022
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A 🧵 on burnout
Yesterday I learned that when people are burnt out, their amygdala enlarges. For all you non-neuroscientists, here's what that means and why it's important.
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The amygdala is the part of our brain that controls our emotional response to stimuli that we perceive as threatening.
When the amygdala is functioning correctly, we have appropriate fight, flight, or freeze responses.
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