Your Low-Stress Guide to Leveling-Up Your Bedtime Routine
Are You Burnt Out or Depressed?
Deborah J. Cohan, PhD, professor of sociology at the University of South Carolina Beaufort.
Theres a bit of testing how much we can get away with.
This is tied up in subjective cultural and gender norms.
(Most people dont describe blasting classical music or watching hours of football as guilty pleasures.)
Neuroscience supports the hypothesis that indulging in harmless pleasurable habits may be healthy.
Aniko Dunn, Psy.D., is a psychologist at EZCare Clinic in San Francisco.
Dr. Cohan says that neural pathways in the brain light up when we expose ourselves to things we enjoy.
But we also acquire similar feelings by engaging in smaller pursuits and pleasures we find rewarding, too.
Can your pleasures become liabilities
Can too much of a guilty good thing backfire?
The short answer is yes.
Too much of anything is never great, and the same goes for this.
Do you feel drained?
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