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A rough night’s sleep doesn’t always feel like a big deal the next day. You might feel emotionally fine, get through your to-do list, even have a genuinely good day.

It sounds backwards: take stimulation away and energy improves. But there’s a flip side to that, and it explains why so many people find it hard to believe.

When someone comes in exhausted, the instinct is usually to look for something to add: a supplement, a treatment, a strategy.

Chronic stress and overwhelm behave a lot like a bushfire. Once one gets going, it’s genuinely hard to bring back under control, and almost anything can fan it back up.

A lot of the conversation around stress focuses on what happens when it becomes too much. That’s important, but it’s only half the picture.

Stress has a bit of an image problem. It gets treated as something to eliminate entirely, when really, the same stress can either build you up or break you down