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The Exhausted Mind
Why Your Brain Never Feels RestedBy Farah Zidan
Length1h 57m
About this audiobook
You sleep. You rest. You still wake up tired.
The Exhausted Mind explores why modern exhaustion goes far beyond sleep deprivation. Drawing on neuroscience and psychology, this book examines the cognitive overload, emotional depletion, digital hypervigilance, and existential restlessness that quietly drain us every day — and why none of them show up on a blood test.
Part cultural diagnosis, part nervous system science, part deeply human inquiry — this is not a productivity book. It is an honest, clear-eyed examination of what it actually means to be mentally exhausted in the modern world, and what genuine recovery might look like.
For anyone who has ever Googled "why do I always feel so tired?"
Audiobook details
GenreSelf-Help, Psychology, Health and Wellness
Length1 hr 57 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 31, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2An Honest Starting Point
3PART I WHY WE ARE SO TIRED
4Chapter 1: The Kind of Tired Sleep Cannot Fix
5Chapter 2: The Age of Endless Input
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6Chapter 3 Attention Fragmentation
7Chapter 4: The Nervous System Was Never Built for This
8PART II THE MODERN FORMS OF EXHAUSTION
9Chapter 5: Emotional Exhaustion
10Chapter 6: Decision Fatigue
11Chapter 7: The Loneliness of Constant Connection
12Chapter 8: Why Rest No Longer Feels Restful
13PART III THE INVISIBLE ADDICTIONS
14Chapter 9: Dopamine Everywhere
15Chapter 10: Productivity as Identity
16Chapter 11: The Fear of Silence
17PART IV RECOVERING THE MIND
18Chapter 12: Mental Minimalism
19Chapter 13: Relearning Deep Rest
20Chapter 14: Attention Is a Form of Life Force
21Chapter 15: Building a Slower Inner World
22Afterword
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