Severe Exhaustion

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How many weeks ago did this start? If it were me, I'd try to piece together everything I was doing and everything that was happening to me around the time it started, however insignificant any of it may seem.

You may have been exposed to a level of chemical that your body can't tolerate, something from an animal you were near, you may be exposed to a high level of EMF or a new source of it in your home or work area, you may have developed an allergy to something that didn't use to bother you and one exposure too many is now causing a reaction, and it could be something emotional that your body is having a hard time dealing with. It sounds like you're in a pretty stressful time right now. FasterEFT might offer some options.

Every (good) practitioner I go to for fatigue has wanted as detailed a history as possible to help them narrow down what type of direction to go, with modalities and testing. There's only so much testing a person can really afford to do. It helps to know a range of likely culprits.

If it turns out that you can find no traceable link to any likely precipitating factor, that in itself can be useful.


Being a night-owl myself, I was surprised to find out that a tendency to staying up late can indicate hormonal imbalances:

Based on your posts you do seem like a person "driven to succeed". As you know we have more sensory stuff coming in and low working memory so we probably burnout faster.

A lot of the advice has been great. I would add that some things in your life will need to be dropped. You have to keep what you really need and drop what you just want. Another area to look into is even when we are alone having "me" time our minds are sill racing.

Two other resources you might want to look into: http://eiriu-eolas.org/ (link to the program is near the bottom of the page)

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The HOCATT. Vicky Dewing's story at this page reviews her experience: http://hocatt.com/results/

In my searches, I found the same. Licorice comes up as a helpful herb, and one of my favorite flavorings I keep on hand is this:
http://www.luckyvitamin.com/p-22180-nat ... -free-1-oz

I put a few drops in yogurt or lemon water and it adds a great hint of flavor. This from someone who can't stand that black licorice candy flavor, which seems more of an anise flavor but I like anise too. Real anise, not whatever it is they put in black licorice candy.

One other that I do find helps, but can be expensive is Chyavanprash. Banyan I've been told makes good products:

http://www.doshabalance.com/doshabalanc ... nprash.php

But I don't like that they use cane sugar as the base.

One company where product purity is at the forefront is PRL. So the only type I've ever used is ChyaPro from PRL (www.prlabs.com). First product ingredient is Indian Gooseberry, not Sugar. My problem with this product is I love it and go through a bottle so quickly.

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Not to mention the most obvious - Occam's razor: Insufficient time sleeping. In my case, the reasons were psychological. Anyhow, hope you're better rested!

I get that way when I'm really depressed.

Suggest you begin with a few physical checks first - your iron and ferritin levels seem the most obvious place to start.

Depression has not been a problem for me for a long time.

However, I have been going through psycho-ed testing for the past two days and they already told me one thing: that my working memory is lacking compared to the rest of my IQ.

In fact, I find planning and switching activities very draining. I am very slow at EVERYTHING and that clearly adds stress to my life when I feel there is too much to complete and can't plan the steps to do it. I constantly have to write to-do lists for things. So when I have no energy to write a to-do list, I'm screwed. When I have to improvise steps to an activity (e.g. in what order will I clean the bathroom?), that's when my mind goes into overload and I would feel totally drained after doing just that. I am not quite sure where to seek help for this and what kind of help I could get.

I also recently realized that doing chores right before bed makes me agitated and I cannot sleep afterward. Having to plan and execute steps seems to be as exerting on my mind as very difficult mental activity like, say, solving complex math problems. I lost one and a half nights of sleep this week due to a lack of wind-down time before bed and today I am so exhausted that, at least now, I am not up to doing any sort of cognitively demanding work. It's almost like I need another person to help me plan my life down to the smallest email to be written or the smallest random chore to be dealt with.

The thing is, I don't think my fatigue is health-related because it is NOT chronic. If I spend one day reading about only one topic or talking to one person/group of people and barely do anything else, I do not feel tired afterwards when these things are done in ideal conditions.

I do so much because a) I am broke and b) I need to do certain things for grad school. The rest of duties are just survival needs. And I'm not even doing THAT much. Regular household chores and keeping track of things I need to respond to are the most problematic for me. Just figuring out what to prioritize, what to say at a certain time, what to do at a certain time, etc. takes a lot out of me.