Why are you tired all the time?

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By Jeanne Dorin

Although normally sleep healthy and has a good "sleep hygiene" - no coffee after 15 clock a quiet, dark room and a reasonable schedule - D. Rose still tired.

At 54, she slogs through your work day, against a wall at the end of the afternoon, when the office door closed, she leaned her head on her desk and take a nap for 30 minutes.

When his doctor gave him a check, he suggested, Rose as other factors that could explain fatigue - stress factors in your life, such as financial problems and a difficult relationship with his sister. It turns out that weighed on her and expressed a deep sense of exhaustion .

While the benefits of a good night's sleep are well documented, and ambiguous chronic fatigue affects millions of people over 50 your fatigue is not due to illness, medications, or clearly diagnosed conditions caused. It is the responsibility rather than a complex emotional and psychological life in a world full of stress.

In a phase of life where the typical worries such as money, children, disease and early loss of the head to the scene of the first act of his own mortality and the importance of time just feeling out of control fuel which can zap energy.

"Heat exhaustion is an expression not only of the lack of sleep, but a much deeper response underlying conditions in which we live," says New York clinical psychologist Michele Berdy, whose clients include many in their 50s and 60s years.

In full swing

Industry and Technology at the cocktail of fatigue added. During their 50s and 60s were traditionally a time to slow down today (toward retirement), Baby Boomers tend to work teams and conduct still, sometimes attractive for pension funds to fill after being fired or a financial success.

This feeling to beat the clock, so to speak, has conditioned to a life of working 24/7. "It is not uncommon for people to work at any time by intelligent, SMS and email phones feel like they have to be available," Berdy said. "This creates a sense that the work is not limited, which means that leisure is always bad. Never there feel completely on your own time."

Many baby boomers who came of age with a profound sense of idealism and possibilities are, in the world today - meet existential and a feeling of exhaustion, fatigue - with its economic terrorism labor market, repellent and even globally.

Compounding that you worry about the future of their children in a slow economy, creating more anxiety.

"No hope," Berdy said. "On the one hand, that in his life fully awake is desirable, but the reality of living our lives most of us, far from it."

Find passion fatigue

A study by the National Institute on Aging in Washington, DC, after decades of being in the labor market can also retired by anxiety, depression, low and even accompanied a sense of boredom words, everything that can be what, fatigue.

A new pensioners, whose career high intensity spans four decades long hours with little do.The best antidote for this type of fatigue is to awaken a voluntary work or find a passion or hobby that establishes a sense of creativity and productivity again.

That is, prolonged fatigue is sometimes a byproduct of insomnia and insomnia, which is also more common with increasing age. According to Dr. Michael Irwin, professor of psychiatry and director of the Center for psychon Cousins at UCLA, some people frantically and going to bed with a high level of enthusiasm day. You can not stay asleep.

But a light, restless sleep can deepen daytime sleepiness and also have a high health care costs. In their new study in the September issue of the journal published sleep , Irwin and his team first documented benefits of the treatment of insomnia researchers to a level of C-reactive protein causes inflammation (CRP), a marker of the disease to reduce older people. Research has also documented cognitive behavior therapy as the most effective treatment for insomnia.

Whether your fatigue is the result of stressors or life dream without repair, the following are recommended by the National Institute on Aging antidote can help, prolonged fatigue:

• Hold, allowing you to identify a "diary exhaustion" at certain times or situations that make you feel tired.
• Exercise regularly.
• Avoid long naps during the day, with the leaves you stunned and makes it harder to sleep at night.
• Quit smoking, which can lead to disease zap energy.
• If you feel overwhelmed and submerged, get help. Cooperation with others can facilitate tasks and reduce fatigue.

Do not miss meditation and relaxation to relieve anxiety and fear tactics.

Jeanne Dorin is a writer who frequently covers in Los Angeles health and wellness.