Is Anyone Else Constantly Tired?

[kal]

I feel constantly tired.

I believe some of it is related to adhd because when I take adderall i feel energized and not tired usually. Sometimes I add a cup of coffee and then I officially wake up.

When I don't take it I cannot function or "wake up" and i feel there's a fog in my head.

Besides that I also drink 5-6 cups of coffee a day, and have extreme problems getting out of bed in the morning in general.

But I think this may be related to PTSD because I have friends that take adderall and they are fine in the mornings and perfectly awake without it.

I feel that I take adderall to wake up and maybe I don't have adhd but just fatigue that is caused by stress or ptsd.

 

[piratelady]

I feel tired most of the time, but I also don't sleep well at night and I expect that contributes to the problem. I find if I am remember to cut out caffeine earlier in the day, I am able to sleep better, and feel a little more rested the following day.

Also, as my depression deepens, I find that no matter how much I sleep I never feel well rested and I have a very hard time dragging myself out of bed. I think how tired we feel varies depending on our routine as well as the severity of the symptoms.

 

[Mercy]

I have found that all my life I have had less stamina than most people. Now that I am older, I even need an afternoon nap a couple of days a week. Some days, I get up, have coffee, something to eat and feel tired again. I go back to bed for a morning nap, sometimes for an hour or two. Sleep in the day time is more restful for me because I'm not as vigilant. I feel like 'tired' is a shadow that always follows me around. I give in when it is stronger than my willpower needed to accomplish the task at hand.

 

[Bubba]

I'm pretty much tired all the time. Not sure if it's PTSD or just me. But I know some nights I just don't sleep that well - up at least 3 times a night, which I'm pretty sure contributes to being tired the next day.

 

[Anna]

I live my whole life being exhausted. I think it is due to trauma effecting the amount of quality sleep. I wake up several times a night. I never sleep deeply and easily awake.

 

[kal]

I wonder if this problem can be fixed....

 

[Traumagirl]

I'd love to find a solution to this problem. I am a mother of three and I've had to cut back my work to part-time because I'm so exhausted I can't work full-time and be a Mom. My psychiatrist says that this is a trauma reaction. Something about my whole system shutting down because of the fear. Growing up with constant fear, I guess I've always been tired.

 

[Zef]

Same here. Always tired. . .but I also hate to sleep. . .so that combination seems to be a bad one. :)

 

[missmary]

I too am always tired. I could sleep most of the day if I was allowed. I never feel like I ever really catch up on it!

 

[gms1976]

I wake up in the morning and the first thing I think of is that I need a nap. I drag myself around all day every day. My brain is so emotionally exhausted some days I float through in a fog. I dread going to sleep most nights because that means the nightmares or vivid dreams come visit. I understand. Not sure that stimulants are the way to go - you're going to burn your adrenals out.

 

[Springer80]

Hi,

I know what you mean, I'm sure we all have similar stories. A few things that I have found recently (I've crashed big style, finally.) that may help. If you have mood swings, massive surges of energy then flop or have ever been diagnosed bi-polar then check out bi-phasic response, it's 'body only' due the nervous system but doc's often diagnose actual bi-polar. If you have had that then that was your nervous system going into emegergency rescue mode. It can lead to a 'dorsal vagal' state (burn out). Look at pictures of the vagus nerve on the net and see how the nervous system attachs it to the rest of your body (and then wonder about your other 'physco-somatic' classed symptoms).Dorsal Vagal (I like to imagine it as a wrestler, sort of Arnie but still with the Austrian accent :)) is related to chronic vitmain d deficiency and adrenal fatigue syndrome. Frankly, seen as I haven't a personal assistant to manage my doctor, I am trying to get at least the test done privately. Getting to the specialist is the longest part so I thought if I can pay for the test then I might be able to convince them and go straight to appropriate state treatment.

Another thought, as it's forming in my head, I believe this 'crash' I have experienced and subsequent landing area to which I seem fixed, is the result of twenty years (at least) of trying to obtain affect regulation by all sorts of means that have mostly taken my life in a variety of disadvantageous routes. Coming to a stop like this is the 'end of the line' in attempting external/maladpative adjustments or distractions (skipping school, smoking, drug taking, trying to be cool with the 'bad' kids, high level effiency, academic/career mania, exercise, constant 'mediator' in situations, helping others to the detriment of my own advancement, shopping, appearance, sleeping, avoiding patterns, general living for the weekend, non-agency promiscuity) . The reason I have stopped, (including work) is that I physiologically can't take the emotional-neuro-biologoical-ANS (mental) strain anymore. The only options my body will accept from now on are those which are positive regulations even if in 'sensible' terms they appear to an outsider to be 'not in my best interests'. So in a weird way this is what I've been aiming for. It' just its knocked the crap out of me getting here.

In that sense then, I am ill and not ill. I am actually ill, I do have adrenal fatigue but put in the right conditions, I am quite sure it would go. So as far as I can see this pyshco-somatic term is used bt doctors like a static phenomena but it transmutes because emotions-hormones-brain-nervous system- muscles, organs are all one. Something might start off in your head but if you cant manage it (affect regulation) where does it go?

So the question is what to do that is good for me, cos all my behavioural patterns, even though I desperately wanted to shake them off also hid me from further damage. Again maybe this is why I am in a sort of stasis. etc etc ....rambling sorry!

 

[Lina]

If I'm extremely taxed; a lot of stressful events going on in my life, an exacerbation of PTSD symptoms, a lot of anxiety, then I'm tired most of the time. Psychological issues can make you tired, for sure, especially if they cause physical symptoms! That tiring! :)