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Fatigue Is the Hidden Killer: Why Exhaustion Is More Dangerous Than Depression is a forensic examination of modern collapse-one that happens not through emotional breakdown alone, but through invisible biological depletion. This book challenges the dominant mental health narrative by exposing fatigue as the most underestimated threat to human safety, judgment, and coherence. Unlike depression, fatigue hides inside productivity. It allows people to function just long enough to make catastrophic decisions, travel distances they cannot remember, survive accidents they cannot explain, and wake up in trauma they never consciously chose. Blending lived reality, biological insight, and systemic critique, the book shows how exhaustion merges with stress, pressure, and depression until the lines disappear. People become present but not fully here-alive, yet dissociated. Survival becomes mistaken for wellness. Recovery is postponed until after damage is done. The book argues that modern workplaces, institutions, and cultures are designed for extraction, not recovery. They rely on self-regulation from fatigued nervous systems that have already lost the capacity for accurate self-assessment. As a result, rest is treated as optional, while breakdowns are normalized. Looking ahead, the book warns that 2026 and beyond will reveal the cost of this neglect through rising accidents, trauma-induced mental collapse, and irreversible outcomes-not because people are careless or weak, but because systems refuse to acknowledge biological limits. Fatigue Is the Hidden Killer calls for a structural reset: enforced rest, designated recovery spaces, medical-level commands to stop, and workplaces that treat rest as safety infrastructure. This is not a wellness manifesto. It is a prevention argument. A warning. And a demand to redesign how humans are allowed to survive modern life.

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