If you ever experience a total lack of energy, a decline in your sense of belonging and a plimmenting self-esteem, you could be suffering from a burnout. With the pandemic stress for the past two years, along with everyday changes, this could change your brain. Some symptoms of being burnt out are being more irritable, more destructive, less motivated, and less hopeful of everything. Understanding what you are going through, can help you recover and deal with situations better. Chronic stress contributes to your mental and physical health. When you struggle with a burnout this affects the prefrontal cortex, which helps you act and think appropriately. When you weaken that area it can impact the ability to pay attention and retain memories. This will also make it harder to learn new things and increase the risk for mistakes. If you struggle with burnouts cognitive behavioral therapy can help reverse the changes. A burnout’s main symptom is exhaustion, struggling to ever have energy and getting up in the morning.  To help, take some mental health days and do things that you find relaxing. Get good sleep, eat good food, and maybe workout. Do things that make you happy.