This disease leaves people bedridden. I've gone through phases where I couldn't roll over in bed. I couldn't speak. To have it called 'fatigue' is a gross misnomer.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It is tempting to think of this form of insomnia, the inability to fall asleep, as a disease of agency and control: the inability to relinquish high self-reflexive consciousness for the vulnerable, ignorant regions of slumber in which we know not what we do.
The biggest problem has been exhaustion. I've spent about 6 of the last 14 years completely bedridden.
Nothing ever fatigues me but doing what I do not like.
Your body can't switch off tired. People fall asleep behind the wheel all the time.
I spend several days at a time without enough sleep. At first, normal activities become annoying. When you are too tired to eat, you really need some sleep. A few days later, things become strange. Loud noises become louder and more startling, familiar sounds become unfamiliar, and life reinvents itself as a surrealist dream.
I sometimes feel tired. But there are so many reasons for being tired.
The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world.
Fatigue is the best pillow.
Strangely, nothing makes me feel tired, fatigued, at all. I've gone days and nights without sleep, and still the mind is in such a positive space it just doesn't make you feel fatigued.
Tired is not a word in my vocabulary.