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Post-exertional malaise (PEM) in ME/CFS

Post-exertional malaise (PEM), the cardinal feature of ME/CFS, is particularly debilitating as it involves the amplification of existing symptoms, alongside the potential appearance of new ones, following minimal exertion. However, the term “exertion” may be misconstrued, by those unfamiliar with ME/CFS, as activities typically considered high intensity by healthy individuals. Consequently, healthy individuals may inappropriately…

When one can work no more: The effects of burnout on your body

Continual stress is often associated with emotional problems, but it can also have major physical consequences, including heart attacks

Burnout From an Organizational Perspective (SSIR)

Instead of pressuring already-stressed individuals to fix themselves, true wellness requires organization-level interventions. <meta property=

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When the world feels heavy, a kind word can make a difference. Receive anonymous letters from people who have been there. No pressure, no spam—just a quiet reminder that you are not alone.

Introducing Noema VI: Paradigm Shifts | NOEMA

Profound transformations occurring simultaneously mark our new Age of Upheaval.

From moms to medical doctors, burnout is everywhere these days

This state of emotional, physical and mental exhaustion seems to be everywhere. But there are ways to fight it.

Procrastination: It's pretty much all in the mind

Scans show differences in the brains of those who love to put things offs compared with the "doers".

you feel like shit

You feel like shit. That sucks. You Feel Like Shit is a game designed to help you help yourself through your shitty times and practice self care.

‘Ugh Fields’, or why you can’t even bear to think about that task

Have you ever had a long-overdue task — a task which isn’t so bad in itself — but which you can’t even bring yourself to think about?

Eradicating Unhappiness

Is there a manual for living well? Where modern science, society, and psychology underserves, a philosophy nearly as old as time emerges. “Take a simple idea, and take it seriously.”—Charlie Munger…

Trauma Junkie

[First place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest for Fiction.] It’s Christmastime, and over the hills, in the faraway furrows of one of those endless tracts of half-submerged land, a main battle tank sits in a ditch, decomposing, festering. My tank. But the neighborhood seems to have forgotten, here in the shadow of the old Hospital, that shining ziggurat high above. An aspiration, once — and an obligation.

Burnout Phase Transition - meri's missives

Modelling chronic stress effects on my mental health and the end of monopolies

Dopamine Trap

Dopamine Trap does narrative driven decay. With organic noise, apocalyptic soundscapes, and scathing poetry his productions cast lovecraftian solopsisms on the roof of the skull, dripping with tumors of unresolved inter-generational trauma, resignation and reckless, violent love. He delights in emptiness and the granular implications of percussive silence.

Fact Sheet 2: Post-exertional malaise (PEM)

Fact Sheet 2: Post-exertional malaise (PEM) Published May 2025 Link to pdf: PEM_Factsheet.pdf Link to pdf of French translation: Malaise_post_effort-S4ME-Feuille_information.pdf Discussion...