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Strong Women
“My last breakup made me physically ill”: why do mental burnouts often have such physical symptoms?
By Chloe Gray
8 months ago
9 min read
When writer Chloe Gray experienced her first bout of burnout, it was an almost entirely physical experience. Fast forward a few years, and thanks to the same triggers, she’s back there again – only this time, she’s physically fine but struggling with mental symptoms. Here, she talks to two other women going through the wellbeing trenches as well as mental health experts about what the different kinds of burnout mean and if physical symptoms necessarily require a physical solution.
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