Chronic fatigue: how do you know when it's time to go on vacation?
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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Work to exhaustion, household affairs, children, responsibilities to older relatives - it would seem that this is special? Everyone lives like this ... However, doctors are alarmed: chronic fatigue in the past 20 years has become a clinical form and cause real, serious health problems.
The term " chronic fatigue syndrome " appeared in the early 1980s and was not initially perceived as a set of exclusively medical problems. A little later, the second term appeared - "manager's syndrome", which was automatically deleted from the number of chronically tired women not employed at work - as it turned out, in vain ... Today, doctors and psychologists suggest dividing the manifestations of chronic fatigue into three phases, so that everyone can understand when it's time stop and relax.
The phase of evening apathy
If you do not have the strength to go to the cinema or to visit, or even just stroll around the neighborhood in the evening after work or completing some household chores, this is a worrying sign. Typically, this state indicates the inability to automatically switch from the voltage mode to the rest mode. Of course, if one of the family members or friends "pulls" you to unwind - most likely, you will be able to relax and relax. But not on personal initiative.
What to do at this stage? Reduce the burden, delegate business to other people, analyze their nutrition and assess their health. The fact is that sometimes chronic fatigue is associated with protein deficiency in the diet, vitamin B1 deficiency, as well as with chronic liver and thyroid gland diseases.
Phase of sleep disorders
This is a more serious stage in the accumulation of chronic fatigue. The whole day you feel a shortage of energy, you are not easy to concentrate and constantly want to sleep. You drink tea and coffee, try to artificially exhilarate yourself, but it does not last long. And when you already, it seems, have remade all the affairs and are heading for the pillow - the dream disappears. You either can not fall asleep at all, or fall into a heavy forgetfulness-a superficial dream that not only does not rest, but even more overloads the brain. Another worrying point, which must be paid attention: a sharp decline or disappearance of libido, when the presence of a beloved partner, the very idea of having sex, poisons the evening hours. The reason is all in the same chronic fatigue, which always reduces the synthesis of sex hormones.
How to help yourself? It requires cardinal solutions - at least a one-week vacation without any contact with work (although everyone understands that people who devote most of their lives to their duties, with great difficulty, stop such contacts even for a few days). Relaxing procedures, massages, swimming in the pool - all this can help to recover, provided that these effects are pleasant to you. Those who do not tolerate tactile impact, it is worth to go on an interesting excursion, not related to work or life. In any case - it is necessary to radically change the "picture" before the eyes.
The phase of somatic disorders
At this stage, without qualified medical care can not do - a long mental and physical strain begins to seriously affect health. Here is a list of signs characteristic of the third phase: chronic headache (especially behind the eyes or in the occipital region), digestive disorders (constipation, epigastric pain), cardiac arrhythmia, numbness in the extremities, exacerbation of sciatica, osteochondrosis, arthritis. In even more serious cases, women may lose their periods, start pains in the mammary glands, and men start having problems with potency. The reason for all these ailments is a special "redistribution" in the endocrine system, which reconfigures itself from normal physiology (when a person wants to eat, drink, sleep, have sex, etc.), to an abnormal labor one. That is, a person begins to transform himself into a "cadavr", whose only function is an endless job ...
If you notice that something like this is happening to you, go to a good doctor and do a complete screening of your body - from blood and urine tests to computed tomography of the brain and abdominal cavity. Alas, the organism rarely forgives us for such a rejection of simple human joys ...
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