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Medicine has a way of convincing even the strongest clinicians that exhaustion is a personal flaw.
You tell yourself you should be tougher.
You should bounce back faster.
You should “handle it.”
But what if your body isn’t failing — it’s protecting you?
What if the fatigue, irritability, scanning for threat even in the grocery store, the Sunday-night dread before walking back onto the unit — what if all of that is simply biology doing its job too well?
This is the truth physicians rarely hear:
Your body isn’t broken. It’s brilliant. It adapted to survive medicine.
And now it needs help coming back down.
