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Why We Need to Invest in Our Emotional Health with Dr. Guy Winch

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The Physical Physiological Effects of Sleep Deprivation

When we are depleted energy-wise because we've over-trained, under-slapped, under-nourished, whatever the thing is, we're depleted not just in physiological resources, but in mental resources as well. So all our thresholds will get lower, that threshold above which we get triggered for anger or we start to ruminate or we get upset or we get anxious. All those thresholds come down, we are much more prone to do those things because our reserves have been taxed. As a general rule, if you're feeling that you're physiologically depleted, unrecovered, unrested, that's how you're going to be in the mental side and the emotional side

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