Exhaustion

Deep fatigue as the body reorganizes, sometimes for years

4% clearly described · 17 people
10% possibly described · 50 people
What is this

Deep, pervasive fatigue that can last months or years. The body is undergoing profound reorganization, and the ordinary resources available to maintain daily life are simply insufficient. Several accounts describe being bedbound for extended periods.

This is distinct from ordinary tiredness. It's a depletion at a level that rest doesn't easily resolve. Many accounts describe it as the body needing to be still in order to complete a process it was undergoing.

How common is it
17
Clearly described
Both independent readers marked it from the same rulebook. The conservative count, and the one to quote if only one number is wanted.
50
Possibly described
At least one of the two readers marked it. The wider figure: where the readers disagreed, this is the more generous reading.
From the accounts
And I think for me, that was the main thing that got cleared out is just this, any weariness, weakness, just kind of feeling tired, a little bit exhausted physically.
I was still extremely ill, but I managed it and went to the interview and then had to rest for like a week to recover.
And I look at them and I'm feeling tired and exhausted.
Okay, well I do not experience fear, I do not experience fatigue, I don't get tired, I don't stress, I don't get angry.
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