Chronic stress and a long-standing state of loneliness can make you feel drained emotionally. Constant lack of mental and physical energy, and feeling of despair is a major sign that you are emotionally exhausted. If not treated in time, this can lead to serious health conditions and can cause permanent damage to your mental and overall health.
You know you need to pay attention to your emotional well-being when you notice any of these alarming signs in you. Remember, it’s never too late to seek help. We got in touch with Dr Shivangi Pawar, Consultant Psychotherapist, to help you understand the signs that you are emotionally exhausted and don’t even realise it.
1. Disturbed circadian rhythm
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If you are suffering from emotional abuse for a long time, the first thing which will be affected is your sleep pattern; you will either have insomnia or difficulty in falling asleep at night or you might tend to oversleep especially in the day time. This will disturb your body clock and you may feel tired all the time. The physical changes which you might notice due to this condition are easily noticeable – under-eye circles, hair fall, acne, difficulty in digestion, bloating, and lack of strength and stamina.
2. Easily triggered
Long-term stress and emotional disturbances can make you impulsive and agitated, you may find yourself hyper reacting to trivial things which otherwise would not affect you much when you are in a good state of mind. Intense physical or emotional reactions that you might regret later.
3. Lack of motivation
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The most alarming sign that you are emotionally drained is that you lack motivation; there is no desire to get out of bed or absolutely no enthusiasm to start your day. You may even feel no excitement in doing things which you loved to do before.
4. Absent-mindedness
Emotional exhaustion has a direct impact on your brain’s capacity to perform well, which results in memory issues; you tend to forget important events and dates. Your short-term memory is affected, more so you forget the names of people you just met or even forget roads and directions.
5. Immune disorders
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Long-term stress hampers your immunity and results in either hypoactive or hyperactive immune system, leading to various infections or autoimmune diseases. You are more susceptible to illnesses.
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