Brain-fuel replete
The result, if the stress is significant and/or long-term, is a change from brain cells with healthy levels of brain-fuels (1st Fig below) to brain cells with much depleted levels (2nd Fig below). These brain cells are dysfunctional.
‘High Achievers’ – people who are ‘Doers’, ‘Perfectionists’, ‘Carers’, very creative or Elite Performers are predisposed to depleting their brain-fuels. We call these people ‘Big Brain-Fuel Users’.
When neurotransmission (the transfer of messages from one brain cell to the next) is impaired like this, the messages are much less coherent, and so the function of the whole neuronal network is compromised.