That frazzled state I was in, surviving on my three favorite food groups-- caffeine, chocolate, wine-- failed me.
But the frazzled bit is when we start to think about stress, when we start get into these loop tapes of, oh, my god,
I get a little frazzled when I have to put that over-18 thing.
People who are frazzled have an attentional hijack going on, because one thing the amygdala does is redirect attention to whatever's upsetting us.
get all frazzled and up and kind of um I get sort of hyped up sort of natural
rather than just being dopamine-frazzled zombies, whipping them out every spare moment and just scrolling through, it changes everything.
So the reason I called the book "Frazzled " is because we all need stress.
It was like some days I was focused and other days I was frazzled and my brain cells were on fire.
And she was the breadwinner in her family, and was always a little bit frazzled and stressed.
She's like, all business, all frazzled all the time, you know, one of those types.
If y'all worked from January to December with no days off, y'all would be frizzle, frazzle , shaken, gray hair, hair falling out, everything.
So people who are in this state-- which, were there was an article in "Science" about that state called "The Neurobiology of Frazzle ."
Because when you combine the two, the adenosine and the insulin receptors in the brain now become more frazzled , and you can't focus.
She'll then do the really funny bit, all the magic about how you actually build resilience and avoid becoming frazzled .
First of all, hundreds of thousands of years ago, we were stressed, but we weren't frazzled because we didn't have language.
Every time a comet's come through the inner solar system, it's being frazzled , fried.
And if you go in and visit a kindergarten, you'll see a classroom of 25 people and maybe four really, really frazzled looking teachers.
You know, at first, I would get a little, you know, frazzled .