Are you always tired?

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I get very tired a lot. I really need more energy.

I'm always exhausted because of the medications I take, and also because my stim involves a lot of running.

I find that if I force myself to do a distracting activity, like going to the gym, somehow I'm forced not to be tired. I take a nap or two during the day, which I'm trying to cut out, because it makes me feel like an old man, but it's just that I rarely get enough sleep during the night, so I try to make up for it, but I always wake up from a nap feeling like crap, and it takes me a while to get back on track, which I hate. I love to sleep though, because I love to dream and I always have amazing and fun dreams so I'm like "Can't wait to dream to see what happens!".

I am always tired for the following myriad of reasons:

1) I have diagnosed clinical depression (major depressive disorder) and take Zoloft
2) I have to take medication for high blood pressure (stress-related), and the meds drain me.
3) I have diagnosed AS and am exhausted by social interaction.
4) I have a full time job and have to drive 30 minutes to work and back everyday.

Sometimes I think I might collapse at the end of the day.

I am extremely tired everyday. I take an anti depressant medication ( Zoloft) and I have depression ( obviously since I take the medicine for it). Those are the two main reasons why I am tired all the time. I suffer from hypersomnia as a result of the depression and the medicine. Some days I sleep the entire day away and sleep around 16 hours. That isn't all at once though. I take naps throughout the day because I am so tired. I don't have energy to do anything and it's a struggle to do simple things like get out of bed.

I used to be, I used to feel just like Firebird describes and sleep 12 hours every day. But it turned out I had a sleep disorder. (And *not* depression even though I was on meds for it--it was the sleep disorder making me depressed, not the other way 'round.) Now that I'm on treatment I sleep 7 hours a night and almost never need a nap and have lots of energy all day, even at 10 pm after getting up at 6 am.

Now everytime I hear someone say they're tired all the time, I suggest they get tested for a sleep disorder.

I am the Queen of Exhaustion. I think it's because I'm depressed, I'm on tons of meds, I have little seizures, and interacting with people at all wears me out. And when I do sleep, I have nightmares.

My counselor thinks it's because I have major depression, generalized anxiety and PTSD. He says that I am so on edge all the time, so hypervigilent, that it wears me out.

When I see it all in writing I sound like one big mess!

Get your thyroid levels checked and,if possible, your other hormon levels.

Teemagers need more sleep than any other group,except new borns.(Not sure about your age).

I noticed ages ago how so many aspergers have problems with tiredness, f=dodgy immuns systems , food intolerances , travel sickness etc etc.

Also in my case because i have so many obsessions I am constanly drained mentally ! !

I have been constantly tired all day for about 12 years (i'm 24), and was always yawning and it was really hard to get up
in the morning, and I had to take a nap every day, and then sleep another 10 hours to function. I thought that was normal.

I tried some SSRIs recently and they didnt help with my sleeping, I was sleeping 16 or 18 hours a day and severely depressed,
and then I was in the hospital and experimented with a few other anti-depressants and
WOW.
I'm actually awake now! For the first time since my childhood, I can get through the day without taking a nap and dont
feel tired after 8 hours of sleep. It's like a parallel universe. I didn't realize what it felt like to be "awake".

Maybe you could ask your doctor to try another type of anti-depressant.

I still get overwhelmed when I'm out in the city because I have sensory issues though. If I walk around for a few hours
downtown my head feels "fuzzy" and its difficult to concentrate and I feel like going under the covers and hiding with
quiet for a while.

I also get dizzy when I get out of bed. You should try to tell yourself to get up slowly. I don't usually do that because when I get up i'll run to the bathroom or run to get coffee or something, and then my vision will go black and I feel very fuzzy.
I have to watch out though, because a couple weeks ago I actually fainted and hit my nose on the counter and then fell hard on the floor and was unconscious for a few seconds. I hurt afterwards. This is happening more recently do to the medication I believe. Luckily there are no stairs for me to go down. When I was younger that happened and I fell down the stairs.

I am not tired, really I can get up and do stuff it's no problem. And I never really want to fall asleep.

But I just lack general energy. I do something, it's always sluggish and without vigor.

I never do something fast, or with intense effort... and when I am exerting myself... I tend to take breaks often. I say to myself... okay that bit's done time to meander about in my own head for a while. Knowing this, large tasks can be near overwhelming...

If I am really into doing something creative... or thinking about something, or learning something new... I can have tons of energy.

I can't really call this tired though... since I can keep on plodding along at the pace I set. I rarely completly stop acting, my speed just slowly dwindles with geometric decay.