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Do You Feel Tired All the Time? It Might Be Grief
Fatigue seems to be a fact of life in the pandemic era, but there might be other layers you need to pull back. Particularly if you realized you didn’t properly grieve for something.
At the time of writing, I’ve only been home from a game developer retreat, a gentlewoman’s intermission I had in Chicago, for about a week. I was incredibly energized on the trip: after all, I embarked on it solely to focus on my own projects instead of my clients’, plus get some rest and have amazing food in a city that always helps clear my head for some reason.
But it hit me how freaking exhausted I felt barely two days after I returned, and the feeling has persisted.
I didn’t discover I had ADHD until I was 34. So before you read further, wondering if it’s just the ADHD making one or both of us tired, consider both here. Now that I know how to describe things in terms of executive function and dysfunction, I’ve become more attuned to what will wear me out like a skateboard-torn pair of Court Graffiks. Even if it’s purely mental and I feel fine physically.
Some of this exhaustion could be chalked up to physical factors, like officially being over Shitty Pre-War Buildings of New York…
