Self-care: We should be talking a lot more about these 8 types of fatigue

Some types of tiredness are still there even after a good night’s sleep. This one for example.

Most people have understood and accepted that we have to sleep when we are tired – and also when we are not. Sleep is used for regeneration, processing what we go through when we are awake, recovery and much more. It also offers us a change from our waking experience. Yes, our time is limited, but getting enough sleep is not a waste of time, on the contrary.

But what do we do when we sleep well and enough and our tiredness still doesn’t go away? Or if our tiredness doesn’t let us sleep properly? Both can happen, because sleep is not the solution for every form of tiredness. Therefore, it is important to know what exactly we are exhausted from and in what way, so that we can choose an appropriate rest and regeneration. The following types of tiredness are particularly common and widespread in our society – and do not always receive enough attention.

8 types of fatigue we can talk more about

1. Empathy Fatigue

Putting yourself in other people’s shoes, feeling with or for them – wonderful skills that are fundamentally useful to us. But sometimes we underestimate how much power empathy can cost us. We can’t empathize with the whole world, so we have no choice but to dose our sympathy and reserve it for the people we really care about and who give back to us—including ourselves.

2. Conformity Fatigue

As part of a society, we enjoy numerous advantages and certainties and, in return, we conform to certain rules and expectations. Occasionally, however, an imbalance can creep into this relationship and the joining can become too much for us and exhaust us. When we suppress too many or too important of our individual interests and needs for too long or put them in line to do what is asked of us. In order to recover from this type of tiredness, it can be useful to our own Clarify priorities in life and, if necessary, take certain measures to give them more space. We have to demand or fight for some freedoms that are essential to us, even if we may have to forego security or privileges to do so. Because always just lining up and participating in everything without exception can make you tired in the long run.

3. Helper fatigue

Helping other people basically gives us strength and a sense of purpose – if it does not exceed our individual tolerance range. Especially people who care for relatives or who are there for friends in need of help know how much energy it can take to take care of others intensively. How much it demands of us and how exhausting it can be. We need breaks from helping, help while helping, and some form of appreciation or thanks to help us recover from helper fatigue—even just sleeping isn’t enough.

4. Emotional exhaustion

Emotional exhaustion typically occurs when we experience an emotion either particularly intensely or for a particularly long time. We usually perceive them as a kind of emptiness, lack of joy and drive, indifference and apathy. For example, if we experience a great loss that deeply saddens us, or if we are in a state of fear or frustration (or happiness, because we can get tired of that too) for a long period of time, it can cause us to generally becoming dull and dispassionate about everything – because we’re emotionally drained. We need variety, also in our emotional world. In any case, to get out of a state of emotional exhaustion, it is good to know the cause of our emotional state. Sometimes we can do something about it, sometimes we can only learn to accept it and deal with it. As a second step, it often helps to look for projects that we enjoy or that mean something to gradually get rid of emotional fatigue.

5. Mental exhaustion

Mental exhaustion often leads to insomnia because it can lead to rumination and trouble switching off. Mental fatigue is usually caused by the fact that we have a predominance of mental activities in our lives (mental work, dealing with information and news, virtual contacts and the like) and a lack of experiencing presence (you can find out more in our article “Signs of a lack of presence”. ). To recover from mental exhaustion, we can, for example, do sports (preferably with other people), go to a rock concert, cuddle our dog or meet up with friends more often. AND: Reduce our time on mobile phones, laptops, televisions and the like.

6. Social fatigue

We are social beings and need closeness, contacts and relationships with each other. But most people also need time for themselves, some less, others more. Social fatigue can arise when we spend too much time with other people for our personal needs, have too many relationships, or orientate ourselves too much on others. It can make itself felt in different ways: feelings of loneliness, a feeling of dissatisfaction or being driven, exhaustion or the need to be alone. We can cure social fatigue by organizing and prioritizing our relationships and planning our social life so that it doesn’t overwhelm us.

7. Physical fatigue

Sure, when you’re physically tired, sleeping usually helps – but sometimes more is needed. There is a certain tendency in our society to see our body as a shell that houses what is important (e.g. our feelings, thoughts, goals and achievements) and which we need to keep healthy, but with the right tools we can mold and shape, as we like it. But that’s not true. Our body is the source of everything that is important to us. Our body is not just any part of us, we are our body or our body is involved in everything we do and feel. We need breaks, we need fats, we need saturation, we need touch and we can’t work on our optimization every day and let our smart watch guide and spur us on to achieve our activity goals. We often recover from physical fatigue not just by sleeping, but by paying attention to all our physical signals and learning to respond.

8. Goal-striving fatigue

Whatever our goals—beating depression, pursuing a career, becoming more organized, having a happy relationship—the never-ending pursuit of them can be tiring. Always having the same goals in mind is a monotonous prospect, and monotony wears you down over time. Taking breaks along the way to look around and do other things, maybe turn down a side street even if it throws us back, or just stand still or lie down and accept it can help against this type of tiredness that we are not progressing as well or as quickly as we would like.

Source used: multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com

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