Exhaustion is no joke. But there’s a difference between being tired and true fatigue. Tired is what you feel after intense activity or a lack of sleep. Sleep doesn’t help true fatigue, which can result from a range of causes. Gabi and Joanne share their own experiences and talk about the fatigue that follows surgery or illness, fatigue that often accompanies grief and the now ubiquitous Covid fatigue, for which there are plenty of antidotes.

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Links:
How Grief Can Make You Sick by Dr. Sanjay Gupta
https://www.everydayhealth.com/news/how-grief-can-make-you-sick/

What is Covid-19 Fatigue
https://www.webmd.com/lung/covid-fatigue#1

Causes of Fatigue and How to Manage It by Krista O’Connell, medically reviewed by Elaine K. Luo, M.D.
https://www.healthline.com/health/fatigue