Dr Shyamal Mashru
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 8 Jun
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One of the core traits of autism is an inability to express your emotions or communicate how you're feeling very clearly.
So if you start having more negative thoughts, depressive thoughts, you're less likely to reach out for help.
And there's a lot of research that shows that that particular group are much more vulnerable to suicidal ideation and suicidal attempts.
So that's where it can become really quite clinically significant.
So burnout very rarely came out of nowhere.
It might feel like that to the person because they might have subconsciously been sort of using their coping strategies, masking, for all these years.
And then suddenly there'll be a trigger, a new stressor.
So like some of the examples we gave in, you know, birth of children, changing your sex hormone profile, you go through perimenopause or menopause, more responsibility at work.
At that point where you can't use your coping strategies anymore, you can't do last minute work, essentially.
you then really struggle.
And then people describe feeling overwhelmed.
Over time, the brain can't take that anymore.
And then that leads to exhaustion.
And we call that burnout, essentially.
But it hasn't come from nowhere.
It's come from years of doing this, and then a new stressor in place, which sort of propagates the problem.
I can't say I do.
If you stop pretending, you'll get better.
That's actually a big focus on the recovery side that we do in therapy around prolonged masking.
First of all, you have to ask, why do people mask?
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