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The high-functioning burnout no one at work can see. You're a partner at the firm. A director of engineering. A founder. A senior surgeon. On paper you're crushing it. It's 2:14 a.m. and you're drafting tomorrow's emails in your head. You've done therapy 6 years. CBT. SSRIs (Paxil → Lexapro → Zoloft). Calm. Headspace. The meditation retreat. Yoga. The vacation. Daily run. The baseline buzz never quits. A Mass General autonomic-medicine specialist explained why. Talk therapy and CBT operate at the cognitive layer. The dysregulation you're carrying sits one layer underneath. SSRIs don't engage it. Benzodiazepines don't engage it. Sleep medication doesn't engage it. The vagus nerve is the body's off-switch. The auricular branch is the only place on the body it's reachable without an implant. There's a 20-minute clinical protocol for this. The first consumer device built to that protocol ships with a 60-night home trial. Read what 312 professionals in our cohort kept →