tertiary · Exhaustion

Cognitively-Fried

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What is Cognitively-Fried?

Your brain feels overheated and sluggish. Thinking, deciding, or concentrating takes enormous effort.

When you might feel cognitively-fried

Cognitively-Fried is a specific form of mental, which itself is a type of exhaustion. You might experience this feeling in situations where exhaustion is present, particularly when the circumstances align with the nuances that define cognitively-fried.

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