exhaustion

Discussion moved from this thread But the question is - what is 'exhaustion' in the context of ME/CFS. We have little evidence that it is actually depletion of energy reserves or a 'run down battery'. It certainly seems to feel like that but there is no shortage of oxygen or glucose and almost...

The Role of Subjective Expectations for Exhaustion and Recovery: The Sample Case of Work and Leisure Victoria Schüttengruber and Alexandra M. Freund Abstract We propose a new model of exhaustion and recovery that posits that people evaluate an activity as exhausting or recovering on the basis...

Abstract Background The adverse health effects of stress induced exhaustion disorder (SED) cause increasing concern in Western societies. This disorder is characterized by severe fatigue, decreased tolerance to further stress, and attention and memory lapses. Despite subjective complaints...

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" I’m not proud of cursing out a former GP. On top of that, I think she may have been even shorter than me, a very petite and soft-spoken woman. I had been going to her for over a year, and I was back for a routine follow-up. I was feeling especially exhausted that day. I must have looked it...

Paywalled at http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1049732318785360?journalCode=qhra

well that's a new name! Liverpool Echo article "A young hairdresser who “loved life” said he lost everything after ME robbed him of his ability to do his job and left him housebound. Brendan Boyd developed the condition, characterised by relentless exhaustion, in 2011 after he caught a virus...

I thought I might have seen this posted somewhere but can't find it. It says 2018 but from the link it might be from 2016.: " Alison Millington Mar. 22, 2018 " Living with CFS feels like being tired all the time — but it's so much more than being tired. The illness is thought to affect at...

Science Alert has covered biomedical ME-research several times. They have 9 mill followers on Facebook, 64K on Twitter and 380K on Instagram. It is great to see news on ME-research reaching out far and wide. People with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Are Exhausted at a Cellular Level, Study Shows -...