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Permanent exhaustion
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Hey guys,
Right, I'm a full-time TA and since New Year I've been covering 2 classrooms because my counterpart in the 2nd classroom has been off sick with pneumonia.
Basically, I've been running myself ragged for the past month. I have cerebral palsy and the extra workload really hasn't helped my muscles etc but all this has been discussed at work now and my workload is easing.
Wjhat's really concerning me atm is that I can fall asleep at the drop of a hat, I mean, literally. I get through my day, get home and I just don't want to move. I'm falling asleep without realising,l ie. can be watching TV and the next thing I know it's the next morning. In all honesty, this is the only way I know I'm actually sleeping, because I don't feel any better for it.... I just feel permanently knackered, thinking about when I can next get some sleep.
I've taken to drinking coffee (I detest coffee unless it contains syrups!) just so I can have a conversation with my OH when I get home. I have been so grouchy and I've lost all interest in sex (I love sex!)
We've gone from 3 or 4 times a week to once maybe at weekends and it makes me so sad, because my OH is suffering, thinking that I'm no longer attracted to him.... I've actually fallen asleep so many times while he's been trying to ahem, get my attention and it hurts me too because I do want sex, I just need to sleep!
I seem to be edgy about everything. I get anxious and suspicious and I just don't care about anything. I also feel incredibly unattractive right now too, which just sets the cycle off despite my OH's reassurances to the contrary.
So, please someone, tell me your remedies for making me feel human again because whilst I understand tiredness, this for me is a new extreme... I just want to be normal again!!
Right, I'm a full-time TA and since New Year I've been covering 2 classrooms because my counterpart in the 2nd classroom has been off sick with pneumonia.
Basically, I've been running myself ragged for the past month. I have cerebral palsy and the extra workload really hasn't helped my muscles etc but all this has been discussed at work now and my workload is easing.
Wjhat's really concerning me atm is that I can fall asleep at the drop of a hat, I mean, literally. I get through my day, get home and I just don't want to move. I'm falling asleep without realising,l ie. can be watching TV and the next thing I know it's the next morning. In all honesty, this is the only way I know I'm actually sleeping, because I don't feel any better for it.... I just feel permanently knackered, thinking about when I can next get some sleep.
I've taken to drinking coffee (I detest coffee unless it contains syrups!) just so I can have a conversation with my OH when I get home. I have been so grouchy and I've lost all interest in sex (I love sex!)
We've gone from 3 or 4 times a week to once maybe at weekends and it makes me so sad, because my OH is suffering, thinking that I'm no longer attracted to him.... I've actually fallen asleep so many times while he's been trying to ahem, get my attention and it hurts me too because I do want sex, I just need to sleep!
I seem to be edgy about everything. I get anxious and suspicious and I just don't care about anything. I also feel incredibly unattractive right now too, which just sets the cycle off despite my OH's reassurances to the contrary.
So, please someone, tell me your remedies for making me feel human again because whilst I understand tiredness, this for me is a new extreme... I just want to be normal again!!
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I feel pretty much the same at the mo, shattered. Existing but not living.