Excessive tiredness can severely damage your quality of life. If you’re always tired, you should first realize that tiredness is a symptom.
The right way to deal with tiredness is to find out what is causing it, and then take the steps to eliminate the causes or change what needs to be changed…
Most chances are that you suffer from excessive tiredness because of one, or a combination of some of the following:
Health conditions
Anemia, Hyperthyroidism and heart problems are just a few examples of medical conditions that can cause tiredness.
Especially if beside tiredness you have other symptoms, such as headaches, loss of appetite or a blurry vision, I suggest that you consult your doctor as soon as possible.
Tiredness is also one of the most common side effects of many medications – especially sleeping pills and anti-depressants.
Mental / Emotional issues
Many people don’t realize the huge effect of ongoing negative emotions on their energy level and on their overall health and wellbeing. I’m talking about emotions like stress, depression, boredom and ‘burnout’, to name a few.
Negative emotions, as well as negative thinking, are also a common cause for unhealthy behaviors that help lower your energy level even further…
People who are constantly stressed out or depressed tend to take very little care of their body – they may smoke, drink alcohol and coffee, eat poorly and so on.
Sleep deprivation (and not just lack of sleep)
Good night’s sleep is a vital ingredient to your energy level. If you wake up tired and spend the day waiting for the first chance to take a nap, there’s a good chance that you’re simply not getting enough sleep.
If you don’t get enough sleep, there is only one way to compensate on it – getting more sleep.
If you think you sleep long enough, you may be tired because you’re getting low quality sleep. If this concept is new to you, listen carefully…
It’s not the quantity of your sleep that matters most. It’s the quality of it. If you get 8 hours of poor quality sleep every night, you’d probably be tired all the time.
Poor sleep can be caused by a variety of reasons, including health conditions (like Sleep Apnea), but in most cases it’s usually a matter of bad sleeping habits…
But what does it mean?
Having bad sleeping habits means that there are certain things that you do that damage your sleep. Things like the time you go to sleep and the time you wake up, what you eat, your activity level during the day and even the temperature in your bedroom.
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Unhealthy lifestyle
Poor nutrition, lack of physical activity, smoking and other unhealthy habits lower your energy level directly, and also indirectly – by damaging the quality of your sleep.
These factors can affect each other. It’s an ongoing cycle of cause and effect that keeps robbing your energy…
Let’s take stress as an example:
Over time a high stress level lowers your energy level. If you choose to relieve your stress by drinking alcohol – you only cause yourself more harm. Alcohol lowers your energy level in several ways. It can also damage your sleep. What may happen next is that you’d feel tired and “have no choice” but to drink lots of coffee… and so on…
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I am 18 years old and work full time 9-6 5 days a week. I live nearby my job so I don’t get up for work until half 7 I’m back at 20 to 7 I have dinner and I’m ready to sleep at work on my breaks I find it a real struggle to keep awake and on my days off I can sleep until 11am straight it’s only been happening recently but I have no idea what’s wrong and I want to know why
Well, I can’t tell for sure what has caused it, so I would have to guess that it’s a combination of an unhealthy lifestyle (poor nutrition, no exercise, no sunlight) and a chain reaction – a cycle of cause and effect. It started one weekend when you overslept, then couldn’t fall asleep at night, woke up tired and on an on from there.
In order to break this cycle I suggest that you avoid oversleeping in the weekend, go to sleep a little LATER every day (maybe 9-10pm), and wake earlier (and have a good breakfast at around 7am). Also – fill you life with more than work – friends, a hobby, books, exercise, time our doors etc.
Hope this helps :)
My boyfriend is constantly tired. It’s as if he has no life or energy in him. He sleeps in until 20 minutes before he has to be to work and is back in bed as soon as he gets home. At first I thought maybe he is just lazy but I’m beginning to think there’s a real problem. I will work 10 hour days at a physical job then come home and be busy nonstop until he gets home hours later. Additionally he sleeps in hours beyond when I do. Yet, he is still always more tired than I am. I’m also a full time student and still manage to have more life in me than him. He is usually a blink away from being in a coma. I’ve tried getting him on a normal schedule and even making him decent breakfast but he literally always needs to be relaxing or sleeping. Hw has on several occasions accidentally slept until 6pm. What is wrong with him?
Brittany, it sounds to me like your BF is depressed (even if it doesn’t look like it).
Brittany,
He may have sleep apnea.I used to be like that,even while driving car I will feel sleepy I checked with sleep apnea doctor and took sleep test and I am using CPAP now after that I am totally different and i am very active.
Brittany, he might also have a low thyroid condition (hypothyroidism). It can cause chronic extreme fatigue. I highly suggest he asks his doctor to test for low thyroid. I was diagnosed in February and getting the hormone replacement therapy has helped a ton.
you mean hyperthyroidism.
its meantioned in this very acticle snd i hsve it too.. its HIGH thyroid. not low.
Hypo causes fatigue to hyper means your thyroid is producing too much. Hypo mean not enough which helps regulate mood and energy. With that said with low levels it will severely affect your energy all the time I see an endocrinologist every 2 months to check my level. This normally only affects females but im 24 year old male with really low hormones from a past heroin addiction i just got clean from after 3 years of it. Opiates kill everything i was on synthroid and testosterone shots to get my levels back up.