I can't manage a normal schedule

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My job is not difficult either mentally or physically. It's amounts to housework with substantial breaks. However, if I work more than 6 hours I cannot function when I get home. Being a single mother, there's always something that needs to be done (laundry,cooking,homework assistance etc). On a day like today, where my actual work time was probably about 6 hours, I come home in a stupor and have to lie down. I fall asleep for about an hour before I can get up and go again. This doesn't happen on weekends when I'm just hanging around home. I've read that for some people just being out in the world is exhausting. I can see this but it doesn't feel draining while I'm out there, only after it's over. I think this has improved after antidepressants but before I can remember having to nap from a trip to the local library. This fatigue issue has been with me for as long as I can remember, even as a child. Anyone else have significant issues with fatigue?

When I was in public school last year, I would be so tired after a 6 hour day that I would come home and not be able to do anything else for the rest of the day. It was horrible. I get tired from doing things very easily. It's very rough.

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But as to fatigue, has it been explained to you as the result of life just being harder to navigate?

Yes, I have the same problem. I work only about 5 hours outside of the home, but then when I come home I am so overwhelmed by the sensory overload and work it requires to handle the multiple social interactions at work that I have to cocoon for the rest of the day. I never want to leave the house again for the rest of the day.

I think it's overstimulation of the senses, and as adults, it's our way of handling it versus the child's way of stimming or having a meltdown.

I am a grad student, college instructor and work as an assistant for a professor. I also probably work no more that six hours in a day, but I come home exhausted. As a young child I slept lots; my mom still comments to this day what a good "napper" I was. I continued to sleep a lot all of my life so far.. Sometimes I will come home and fall asleep at 4pm and not wake up until the next morning. For me it tends to come in cycles, depending on what I am doing, but the constant fatigue is always there. It often feels like I am walking up hill all day. I am on two antidepressants and an anxiety medication, which helps lots, but just being out in the world is so draining for me. Often it feels like the bed is the safest, most comfortable place in the world.

My wife is very understanding, as is my young five year old son. My son comments that it is cool that the cat is my nap buddy, but I sure sleep a lot. But my son is never shy to tell anyone his dad sleeps all the time. On the other hand, while my wife is understanding, she is often frustrated that I sleep so much that I miss out on helping around the house or with our son as much as I should. I do feel bad about that, so I do my best manage the fatigue.

So, in other words, you are not alone. I wish you the best of luck.

I know I've mentioned this before here but I can clearly remember as a little girl fantasizing about being Sleeping Beauty because the idea of being able to sleep for a hundred years sounded so wonderful. A childhood friend said she remembered whenever she popped over in the late afternoon, I would be asleep. It's caused some self esteem issues for me because I was perceived as being lazy.

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I get tired very easily and it's been made worse by some medicine that I'm taking. I fall asleep at any time of the day no matter where I am. Just yesterday I fell asleep in the doctors waiting room and I have to make an effort during the day to not sit down because if I do, there's a high chance of me going to sleep. I don't even work, my schedule isn't busy at all, yet I get so tired simply being awake and doing normal things like food shopping and walking the dog for 20 minutes. It's ridiculous.

I become so overstimulated from being in the world especially if it involves interaction. I dont realize I have gone too far till its already happened and I am useless for the rest of the day, if I have mini seizures it can go on through the next day also.

I can't manage anything after a schedule so, not unfamiliar to me at all.

I don't even manage a schedule. I live spontaneously. Having said that, I try to be in bed by nine, if I work, the next day.

A four-hour day of work (which is rare for me to work that long) leaves me completely wiped out when I get home. I work with people, though, and 4hrs would mean seeing 8 people and having to communicate with them one-on-one for the whole time, so that would definitely contribute.

Never got tired, just wanted time to myself to relax. When I worked full time or close to full time, I liked coming home to relax. Watching TV and doing my own thing. My husband claims I ignored him when we first lived together and I acted like he wasn't there. He figured it was due to me not being used to him being in my life 24/7 but I think it was just me due to working and I always like to have my time alone. I only cleaned on the weekends. Now that I am not working, I have too much time on my hands so I pay more attention to my husband now. I don't know how I am going to be a good mother when I have kids. My mom is the same way when she gets off work. She says she is tired and wants to relax.