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Feeling very tired all the time

belles12345

I have recently found many new ways to cope with my difficulties, and am feeling a lot happier in myself, trying to express myself more naturally etc.  I feel better than I have ever felt in terms of how I manage my anxiety and self esteem issues.  However, I have been trying to get rid of a cold for weeks (an issue I had last winter when I was emotionally 'drained'). As a result, I am also feeling incredibly tired, to the point where I am struggling to be productive in work and being irritated easily.  As I am sure is common with others, I seem to have a careful balance, that when tipped means that I am easily tired and overloaded.  I am trying to work out what this means for me, and why it is happening again when I feel emotionally stronger.

I don't understand this- surely if I am feeling better emotionally then I should be feeling better mentally and physically too?

Thank you.

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  • I can see what you're saying, and your thinking is logical. I'm fairly sure that once I'm getting sensitised, pretty much any part of me can be overloaded because things will turn themselves over in my head, and I think that whilst it's happening that all sides of the particular issue will get chewed to death. That's usually the point where I just want my head to shut up for a bit and give me some peace. Never happens, of course.

    Perhaps you hit the nail on the head when you say 'highly influential on one another' because while we think of these things as separate issues, in reality we are holistic creatures.

    Put it like this. I've repeated to newbies what others have also said - we are each a mix of different traits, and each trait has a greater or lesser effect on us. Couple that with our ability to be sensitised, and pretty much anything can touch us off. We all know that we struggle to find a 'one size fits all' answer to some things, simply because we all process differently according to what we're trying to process.

    Perhaps, then, it's about being aware of the total load we carry, rather than trying to keep individual bits separate and controlled, although how we might do that is betond me at the moment. I must admit to being a bit like you when 'something' is getting to me and I can feel the build up starting, especially if I'm convinced that, at the time, I'm doing OK.

    Anything there make sense?

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  • I can see what you're saying, and your thinking is logical. I'm fairly sure that once I'm getting sensitised, pretty much any part of me can be overloaded because things will turn themselves over in my head, and I think that whilst it's happening that all sides of the particular issue will get chewed to death. That's usually the point where I just want my head to shut up for a bit and give me some peace. Never happens, of course.

    Perhaps you hit the nail on the head when you say 'highly influential on one another' because while we think of these things as separate issues, in reality we are holistic creatures.

    Put it like this. I've repeated to newbies what others have also said - we are each a mix of different traits, and each trait has a greater or lesser effect on us. Couple that with our ability to be sensitised, and pretty much anything can touch us off. We all know that we struggle to find a 'one size fits all' answer to some things, simply because we all process differently according to what we're trying to process.

    Perhaps, then, it's about being aware of the total load we carry, rather than trying to keep individual bits separate and controlled, although how we might do that is betond me at the moment. I must admit to being a bit like you when 'something' is getting to me and I can feel the build up starting, especially if I'm convinced that, at the time, I'm doing OK.

    Anything there make sense?

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