yep
I have to do the whole "is it ptsd,depression,age or fibro" quiz when I'm exhausted. Sometimes I can guess and get the right meds, sometimes I give in and spend the day on the couch, someday I just try to power thru.
The one thing I have figured out is that regardless of what starts the fatigue spiral the fact is that they are all interconnected. So it becomes less about which title is to blame and more about trying to see what I was doing yesterday, or the day before, or whenever it all started. Did I do too much physical activity? Did I have an upsetting conversation? Am I having flashbacks or I'm triggered? Did the weather change?
Mostly I'm just chronically exhausted fighting all the crap in my life, so of course I'm tired.
One of my big aha moments was learning there are times that I
shouldn't try to just deal with it and move forward.
And lemme tell ya, as a workaholic that was a bitch of a lesson. But sometimes my brain and body just quit - and all it really means is I need to rest. No thinking, no working, no living (unless day of playing video games counts!

)
Just.rest.
Guru and I had many conversations about that - depression vs pity party vs self-care and what the difference is between them. So now when I'm just...blah I give myself 24 hours to be ....blah. At the end of that 24 hours I'll ask myself again - what's up? Sometimes I need another day or two - but most days if I am able to make it thru without expending a shit ton of energy beating myself up for being lazy? My energy comes back a little at a time and I can get back to the world.