Chronic stress is no joke. It really does cause brain damage, which people usually describe as "burn-out" as if it is just a thing to get over. But it takes yea

Chronic stress is no joke. It really does cause brain damage, which people usually describe as "burn-out" as if it is just a thing to get over. But it takes years to get back to a functional condition, and it will not be the condition you started in. Never stay with a thing that is giving you chronic stress. Damage is permanent. Leave it, or find a way to not be insulated. A really excellent book on chronic stress and its effects on physiology is "Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers", by Robert Sapolsky, and endocrinologist. (It is beyond me how anybody can become an endocrinologist without suffering chronic stress!) I had to read the last chapter at 30 minutes per page, plus breaks, because he was tying up threads from the whole rest of the book.