“I am fatigued and exhausted!”
This remark is a regular everyday status update. Are you one of the many? Complaints of being consistently fatigued and exhausted has grown to be the new life ‘normal’. Just like many other health care providers, I have responded to eagerly awaited phone inquiries of test outcomes. So, what is the problem? The answer regularly has always been my patient’s lifestyles and unrealistic expectancies of sustained productivity. The brain often communicates its state of mental fatigue with your physical awareness of feeling tired. The following are four common brain communications associated with the symptoms of being fatigued and exhaustion:
First-Aging is Silent
“Or perhaps it is that I’m simply tired because I’m older…” Six times Tony Award winner Audra Mc Donald was quoted in People magazine as she explained balancing her duties as a mom of both a 5 month old and a 16 year old, lead actress on Beauty and the Beast Broadway play and also newly married wife. There isn’t any road map to aging, simply the realization of the inability to perform certain familiar activities without consequences. The aging process is silent. Without you noticing, your body silently shifted forward the clock of time. Older, the body can loudly communicate when pressured beyond their known working conditions. The mature brain can forcefully demand increased mental effort to finish familiar obligations.
Second-Living with Chronic Stress
Having stressful events is usually associated with the manufacturing of a toxic brain hormone called glucosteroids. These stress hormones can negatively affect the hippocampus, a particular area of the brain. This region is in charge of the capability to recall, retrieve and remember previous events and knowledge. The hippocampus is very sensitive to sustained stress hormone levels, which can manifest itself with heightened memory loss and forgetfulness. When living a stressful lifestyle, the brain uncovered is not working at its maximum capabilities. The stressed individual can experience feeling of fatigue and exhaustion with the increasing attempts to use their impaired brain effectively.
Third-Minimizing the Importance of Sleep
Exhaustion is regularly associated with sleep conditions. A diagnosis isn’t suggested by only one symptom. Often times, so many people miss or justify other symptoms. Lack of oxygen from sleeping disorders can be associated with complaint of exhaustion and fatigue. These conditions are frequently associated with more complaints of unexplained headaches after awakening from sleep, snoring, jumpy legs and motor movements during sleep. Frequently overwhelmed with life needs, these new symptoms are not recognized.
The broad definition of sleeping disorder includes apnea, which is the temporary cessation of breathing and also hypopnea, which is the reduction of breathing. Sleeping disorders are frequently associated with fatigue, inability to focus, learn and memorize information.
Busy individuals often think their sleep requirement as a waste of precious time. However, research shows that sleep deprivation is associated with problematic brain changes that could result in impaired attention, reduced ability to sustain complex information and overall performance. The inability to fulfill the optimal brain sleep hour requirement is usually the culprit responsible for fatigue.
Fourth-Poor Medical Compliance
Non-compliance with recommended medical treatment isn’t considered to have a potential negative effect of impaired brain function. Forgotten pills, misplaced laboratory requests and missed medical appointments are not identified as risk factors for optimal brain wellness, nonetheless, the brain does not function well when exposed to extremes of any condition such as elevated sugars from diabetes, increased blood pressure from hypertension or severe moods swings from medical non-compliance. The effort needed to clear away unwanted symptom from the body distress to sustain high overall performance can be associated with fatigue and exhaustion.
Combat Fatigued and Exhausted with Best Health
Productivity is a big struggle if you are unwell. Mental strength is required to negotiate effectively with both bodily discomfort and work obligations. So how is your physical health? Many women are caregivers for others and thus, they’ll not allocate time for their own self health care. Good health is simply just assumed! The adoption of healthy brain behaviors can improve your productivity. Often times, behaviors that could negatively affect brain health are not recognized as a problem.
Overall, brain wellness is a vital factor in the ability to sustain the energy requirements to fight off feeling fatigued and exhausted.