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What is gaming fatigue/burnout?

For streamers, it may also include disinterest in the interaction with viewers or even feeling anxious about this interaction. Regardless, the things you previously enjoyed are no longer interesting, and you may begin second guessing your grind in the gaming industry.

Reduced performance

Reduced performance may occur due to both physical and emotional factors. Physically, you may be experiencing exhaustion which will reduce your energy and other performance metrics. Emotionally, you may be disinterested in your gameplay—finding it difficult to concentrate on general—which will certainly impede your efforts. You may feel stressed that you never have enough time in the day to complete things or that normal life is getting in the way of grinding, streaming, recording/editing videos and so on.[/nk_text]

How to prevent gaming fatigue or gaming burnout

To prevent gaming fatigue, you need to REST! It really does come down to sufficient rest. However, there’s many moving parts to this simple notion.

Most importantly, sleep!

To read more about sleep and its importance to your overall health. The importance of sufficient sleep cannot be understated. The reality is: without sufficient sleep, every aspect of your health and wellness suffers. It’s a no brainer.

Insufficient sleep will suppress your immune system, decrease your physical ability (e.g., reaction time, nerve conduction, muscle contractile speed and strength), decrease your focus, suppress your memory, inhibit ability to learn, and so much more.

Specifically relating to gaming fatigue, your body will not appropriately cleanse the toxic byproducts of physiological processes during wakefulness, both in your blood and your organ systems—one of which is your brain.

Ultimately, every part of your body suffers when you don’t sleep enough. Therefore, it is absolutely imperative that you aim to maintain a regular sleep schedule. There are four pillars of sleep which are all equally necessary.

Regularity

Aim to fall asleep and wake up around the same times each day; social jet lag is when you go to sleep or wake up at variable times—similar to traveling out of time zones, except without the traveling.

Continuity

Of course, it’s best to sleep through the night rather than have interrupted sleep patterns.

Duration

Eight hours of sleep has been the classic recommendation for sleep duration, and it is certainly an appropriate one to get a full nights sleep; it’s recommend trying to sleep 8 hours per night.

Quality

In addition to sleeping 8 hours, uninterrupted, it’s important that you sleep through all the stages of sleep, including both REM and non-REM deep sleep; this would require a sleep study to confirm, but sleep quality is still important.

Take breaks during streaming or gaming

Those breaks are important, but the breaks we’re talking about here are more about separating yourself from the problem.

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