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So you are in your 50s. You feel old. You think your mental power is deteriorating. You have become forgetful. Fatigue easily overcomes you. You are always 100% stressed out, resulting to your weakening memory and ability to keep up with appointments and demands of daily living.
Don’t lose heart. Studies reveal that brainpower can be maintained or even improved with regular mental work. Just like a knife, the brain needs constant sharpening to keep it quick, pointed and functional.
Constantly work your brain out by reading, solving puzzles or practicing memory tricks to keep it agile and alert. A responsive brain lessens the impact of stress because your coping ability is enhanced and improved.
Fatigue is defined as a condition characterized by a lessened capacity for work and reduced efficiency of accomplishment, usually accompanied by a feeling of weariness and tiredness. It can be a normal and important response to physical exertion, emotional stress, boredom, or lack of sleep. It can be acute (lasting a month or less) or chronic (lasting from a month to six months or longer).
Fatigue is one of the most common health complaint, but one of the most favorite medical word. Whenever a patient says that they have been feeling unusually tired, or “real tired,” the doctor will usually write down that the patient presents with “fatigue.”
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Fatigue is often related to one’s mental attitude. In most cases, your mental attitude affects your ability to deal with work and stress. If you have a negative mind-set about your work and the people you work with, chances are you will soon feel burnt out and strained in no time.
Positive feelings and thoughts beget positive vibes. If you like what you do and you enjoy the people you deal with, you will find it easier to manage stress and fatigue. More often than not, your energy level is always at peak and you’ll be surprised to find yourself looking forward to another day at work.
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Cancer alters the otherwise normal condition and functioning of the body. And in adjusting to this disturbance, the body tries to cope by trying to restore the injured healthy cells to their original state. In this process however, the body begins to increase its need for energy but since the cancer altered many hormones in the body, it just cannot handle this energy demand, thus resulting to fatigue.
Studies also found out that cancer treatments such as chemotherapy, radiation therapy, bone marrow transplants, surgery and other therapies may all result to fatigue. Along with the coping process of the body requiring more energy, the after effects of cancer treatments such as vomiting and insomnia cause fatigue as well.
Fatigue is often detected from people ages 40-49 according to statistics from the Public Education survey. The study was sponsored by Prohealth in an attempt to diagnose what is really the current status of the ME/CFS situation all around the United States. The study is spearheaded by Lili Chu, MD. She said that the information they have gathered in the form of statistics is the missing point they have been looking for in research literature. According to the same study conducted, stress and anxiety is more common among middle class individuals because they tend to over exert themselves in unrealistic time patterns.
When you’re tired, the last thing on your mind is exercise, but we assure you that its one of the first thing you need to relax. Mental strain needs to have a physical exhaust. The body needs to get rid of the mental toxin accumulated through sweating. Inability to do this resorts to sluggishness and a feeling of constant tardiness resorting to fatigue. Always make time for exercise, if your body is in good shape, you’d soon find your mental and psychological being getting better too. We recommend you turn to sports that are most applicable to your body type.
That’s what the statistics are showing, for adults who are suffering a severe form of fatigue that it leads to more health problems. Cases of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, has sufferers experiencing extreme fatigue, the causes of which are still unkown or yet to be determined. The figures may be low, but for a working class family, having a member with the said disorder can be economically disastrous in today’s recession wrecked world. Most sufferers have undergone several evaluations and even medical exams with no finite result to explain their problem or the possible causes. Some cases can be addressed with proper lifestyle adjustments but severe ones can lead to more dangerous diseases such as diabetes if it isn’t being caused by that very disease in the first place.
Teens are known for their pent-up energy and the nuisance a sudden release of such hidden traits pose. But little is known about sleep disorders for they are not always detected in hospitals when they do come to visit due to any of their antics. As it is, most teens with sleep disorders are not identified to have sleep disorders even in hospitals, due to the apparent lack of knowledge on how to detect such disorders. Determining the existence of some sleeping disorder is simply not on the minds of doctors and ER physicians which may give clues to the reasons behind many a grave injuries these energetic and young folks tend to get.
The link between mental fatigue and physical activity has been known for a long time yet we are still to discover the physical link between the two in terms of better understanding the human physiology. There might not be a physical link but the brain being tired form a long day’s work may be willing to throw in the towel at the gym even with activity that is not all that strenuous. The brain being the controlling organ of the human body holds the key to better understanding the ability of a tired mind to influence physically our ability to do physical activity.
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Fatigue and age almost come hand in hand and understanding how we human beings are able to determine the physical condition of others is indeed something to interested in. Being social creatures of habit, we tend to unconsciously gauge the age and stress a person is going through using the face which is the main expression organs for human beings. The face has the ability to show emotion even with that person not knowing of it, meaning we show out emotions without meaning to in the most unconventional way. Listening to a speech, a droopy look means lack or interest or boredom, and a raised brow may be sign of skepticism. The lines around the eyes are some of the most indicative of stress and fatigue even with all the cosmetic procedures we do to our faces.
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