What is the

mental load ?

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What experts say about mental load:

“Taking time for yourself doesn’t mean “doing nothing.” It’s actually choosing yourself […]. What matters is that you have decided to give yourself time. »

Aurélia Schneider, psychiatrist and author “La charge mentale des femmes''
“Give yourself time to pause, reflect and contact your internal state in order to avoid mental overload in the evening or when night falls. »

Nathalie Parent, psychologist
“For women […] the term mental load refers to having to think about a thousand things at once for the family, to plan, to organize most of what happens in the house. All this of course thinking about their work. […]”.

Jean-Claude Kaufmann, sociologist at CNRS, Ipsos study

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