Thank you all/ Can anyone relate?

[josephanguiano6]

First, I just want to sincerely thank every person who replies to posts or manages the courage to ask for help or advice in this community. It has helped me greatly not to know I was the only one. I appreciate every single one of you.

As of recently, I've been experiencing a weird feeling in my head. Like a sort of mental fatigue to the point that I sort of stare into the abyss and cant concentrate on my work. It's at its worst whenever i just wake up. It just feels like I want to sleep for another 8 hours or so. Sadly, I can't do that as I have schoolwork to do. I suffer from depression as well as some pretty bad anxiety.

Does anyone else have this mental fatigue often? Does anyone have any advice?

Again, thank you all for your kind words and time.

[penny-beau]

Hey yes I’ve suffered with major depression and anxiety and a chronic fatigue disorder since age 14. I find myself thinking that I don’t even know where four hours have gone and I sleep 18 hours a day , lost jobs , people get fed up of you and I’m very alone now. The frustrating thing is trying to get help that’s right for me I’m in the UK that have just not been interested. However when I lived in Spain they found a medication that changed my life and I’d given up hope. I had to come back to England and I’m now worse than ever yet won’t hear of me have this medication when I’ve complied with all there ways and nothing g has worked. 30 years of what they think is best. That is frustrating in itself as I have no quality of life and have even planned my suicide. I’m exhausted of fighting and never gave up but I’m 45 now and worn to the bone.

[josephanguiano6 in reply to penny-beau]

I’m so sorry you have suffered for this long. You must be so strong to have been able to keep pushing even though people gave up on you. I hope you don’t take your life. I believe that those who are scarred by mental illness or trauma become great and wonderful people. I hope you find peace of mind and all your hardship becomes worth it in the end. Thank you for sharing

[PT81]

I have but not to the extent of what you must be experiencing. It happens mostly for me if I get stuck on some negative narrative in my head. Anyway, do you have a therapist? I found with the right therapist and medication (only if needed) have helped. Good luck.

[josephanguiano6 in reply to PT81]

Yeah. I should’ve mentioned that, but i take a daily 10 mg fluoxetine and see a therapist through intellehealth. It’s just bothersome, but thanks for responding anyway.

[JDinFL]

I was diagnosed with ADD in my 30's, along with bipolar, anxiety, etc. I do find myself doing that but its more like memory gaps. I'll get up to go take medicine and go back to whatever I was doing and then realize I don't remember if I took it. More than once I've been in the trash if it was something in A blister pack just to see.

Ironically mornings are the worse for me too. I'm very 'space cadet' for lack of a better term. I find I'm at my best after 3pm which doesn't help me alot in the corporate world. But I have tried to arrange my daily task by it and that helped some.

[SxufferingSxoul]

I’m 17 and I experience everything you described. My advice would be to push through the fatigue, it seems almost impossible I know but I once thought, I won’t die if I force myself to do this homework, I pushed myself through the mental fatigue and then realized it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be.