Psychology Today - Fatigue and Brain Injury
Does increasing functionality after brain injury mean no more fatigue?
Fatigue is such an inadequate word to describe the unutterable weariness that comes on to a person with fibromyalgia or brain injury just because one got up in the morning.
When someone who has a chronic illness or injury, particularly brain injury, fibromyalgia, or chronic fatigue syndrome, say they’re tired, they don’t mean what you experience at the end of a long day. They don’t mean something that can be overcome with a little application of willpower like when you must force yourself to get up out of your chair to go cook dinner after a long, long day. They don’t mean the normal exhaustion from work or school. And it is not an euphemism for lazy or unmotivated. It’s worse. Way worse.
