The Neuroscience of Chronic Vigilance: When Your Nervous System Never Turns Off

The Neuroscience of Chronic Vigilance: When Your Nervous System Never Turns Off

Most high-achievers don't identify as stressed. They identify as driven, focused, and switched on. But underneath the performance, something else is running, a nervous system locked in chronic activation, quietly accumulating a cost that doesn't show up until it has to.

In this episode, Verity Coonan breaks down the neuroscience of chronic vigilance: what the HPA axis is actually doing when the stress response never fully deactivates, what chronically elevated cortisol does to the immune system, sleep, memory consolidation, and the dopamine system and why the high-achiever stops feeling the wins long before they stop achieving them.

She also explains why understanding the pattern is never quite enough to resolve it and what the research says about where the real work has to happen instead.

For anyone who functions brilliantly and feels nothing. Who lies awake at 3am with a brain that refuses to stop. Who has read all the books, done all the work, and still can't switch off.


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