Excessive Tiredness – Common Causes

Excessive tiredness can severely damage your quality of life, and I say that from personal experience.

In order to stop being tired all the time, you should first realize that tiredness is a symptom, and not dealing with it means that you don’t take care of the causes, which can only get worse with time.

The right way to deal with tiredness is to find out what is causing it, and then take the steps to eliminate the causes or change what needs to be changed…

Main Causes of Excessive Tiredness

Most chances are that you suffer from excessive tiredness because of one, or a combination of some of the following:

- Health conditions such as Anemia, Hyperthyroidism or even heart problems.

Especially if beside tiredness you have other symptoms, such as headaches, loss of appetite, blurry vision or hallucinations, I recommend that you consult your doctor as soon as possible.

Tiredness is also one of the most common side effects of many medications – especially sleeping pills and anti-depressants.

- Mental / Emotional issues such stress, depression, boredom and ‘burnout’.

Think of your mind and body as one entity. Your mental energy and your physical energy directly affect each other. Stress and negative thoughts and emotions rob your energy.

Negative mindset is also a common cause for unhealthy behaviors that help lower your energy level even further. People who are constantly stressed out or depressed tend to take very little care of their body – they may smoke, drink alcohol and coffee, eat poorly and so on.

- Sleep deprivation (and not just lack of sleep). Good night’s sleep is a vital ingredient to your energy level.

If you wake up tired and spend the day waiting for the first chance to take a nap, there’s a good chance that you’re simply not getting enough sleep.

If you don’t get enough sleep, there is only one way to compensate on it – getting more sleep.

If you think you sleep long enough, you may be tired because you’re getting low quality sleep. If this concept is new to you, listen carefully…

It’s not the quantity of your sleep that matters most. It’s the quality of it. If you get 8 hours of poor quality sleep every night, you’d probably be tired all the time.

Poor sleep can be caused by a variety of reasons, including health conditions, like Sleep Apnea. Yet, it’s usually a matter of bad sleeping habits. But what does it mean?

Having bad sleeping habits means that there are certain things that you do that damage your sleep. Things like the time you go to sleep and the time you wake up, what you eat, your activity level during the day and even the temperature in your bedroom.

- Unhealthy lifestyle – poor nutrition, lack of physical activity, smoking and other unhealthy habits can lower your energy level directly, or indirectly – by affecting the quality of your sleep.

As you can see for yourself, these factors can combine and affect each other.

Let’s take stress as an example…

Over time a high stress level lowers your energy level. If you choose to relieve your stress by drinking alcohol – you only cause yourself more harm. Alcohol lowers your energy level in several ways. It can also damage your sleep. What may happen next is that you’d feel tired and “have no choice” but to drink lots of coffee… and so on…

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