Fatigue, everyone has felt it at one time or another. Often it lasts only a few days after intense physical effort, too short nights, a large mass of work. We resume a more “normal” rhythm of life and everything is back to normal. But it can also have lesser known causes such as taking certain medications, poor posture at work or lack of light. This is called “seasonal depression”.
These mood disorders that reappear every year in the fall are mainly due to the lack of light. All of a sudden we feel very tiredness, we only aspire to one thing, to take refuge under his duvet until fine weather, like marmots. We feel sad and we try to console ourselves with sweets and chocolate. The best treatment is light therapy, which involves exposure to intense artificial light every morning.
Fatigue can also be a sign of depression
If it is associated with other symptoms such as social withdrawal, sadness, sleep disturbances, disinvestment, low libido, tired may be a sign of depression.
“100% of depressions are accompanied by sleep disturbances, therefore by a lower production of growth hormone and a lack of dynamism”, remarks Dr Lemoine, psychiatrist. The person often wakes up around 3 or 4 in the morning feeling very unwell, and the rest of the night is interrupted by awakenings and falling asleep. She is tired upon waking up, then this weariness subsides over the course of the day and she begins to feel good around 5/6 p.m. It is therefore a tired characteristic. Treatment is necessary, because “it is indeed a disease which probably corresponds to an inflammatory state of the brain, possibly secondary to an inflammation of the intestinal microbiota.”
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