Overstudying?
 

I am uncertain if this is the right place to ask but here it goes,

There was a long period when I pushed myself to study things even when I already felt mentally drained and brain feeling tired (observed body reactions: brain felt very tense, stomach has a very weird feeling, unable to recall things learnt, and when I continue to push, nausea, slurred speech even in mothertongue etc). So I forced myself (or I should say, was forced) to stop, and these feelings are weakened. (Still, memory worse, etc) But they come back very quickly whenever I try to concentrate to think about anything, even if I have stopped this pushing behaviour for 1 year or so.

I feel highly uncertain where to seek help about this, so I tried to search online about overstudying, but all I see are usually students in high school/college writing about their experience.

So my questions are:

> Is overstudying a real phenomenon backed up by scientific research? And if that is the case, is it known at all if it has any correlation with long term decrease of cognitive ability?

If this is not the right forum to ask, I would really appreciate it if you can point me to a place where I can ask about these things. Usual study help forums don't seem to help since 1. I am not a student in high school/college 2. the pushing behaviour was quite long (5 years+) which made what I found in those forums pretty irrelevant in general. I also read a little bit about psychasthenia, but it doesn't seem to be considered scientific anymore. Thanks a lot.

Try scholarly articles overstudying

Putting the phrase "scholarly articles" before search criteria usually (but not always) yields any studies that have been done. ;)

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