Functional but Numb? Here's What's Actually Happening

The Advisor with Stacey Chillemi · Mar 6, 2026 · 1h 11m

You are getting things done. Showing up. Meeting every obligation. And inside there is almost nothing left — not sadness exactly, not crisis exactly, just a quiet flatness where your energy and feeling used to be. That is not laziness. That is a nervous system that has been running on override for so long it has stopped sending signals altogether. Chad Taylor works specifically with high-performing people living in exactly that state — productive on the outside, running on empty underneath — and what he explains about the difference between burnout and depression, why successful people are…