ELI5= how come when you’re emotionally burnt out you feel physically exhausted?

Question

ELI5= how come when you’re emotionally burnt out you feel physically exhausted?

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Answer 1

Inflammation starts in the brain, then works it’s way down to the muscles and organs, like rigor mortis.

So when you are burned out, you are stressed, and stress leads to inflammation and vice versa, ie chronic inflammed injuries will burn you out emotionally.