Constant Fatigue: Announcing an Alternative Strategy for Why You’re So Tired

Constant fatigue and job burnout are bedfellows. Mental and physical ailments are both involved in job burnout. Chronic fatigue resulting from multiple factors that reduce one’s ability to cope with stress are reasons that lead to job burnout. Continuing stress in a person’s job is another causative agent leading to chronic fatigue and job burnout.

Mental withdrawal in the job occurs during burnout because of:

* job dissatisfaction

* work strain

* dissatisfaction at work

Symptoms of burnout include the following:

* withdrawal from contact with people

* a poor attitude

* drawing away from contact with people

* declining attitude

Several studies show that as many as 25-35% of people have some level of job burnout. Efforts to determine underlying abnormal function of the body’s stress response system are inconsistent. One of the reasons for this is that tests of physiological function are more or less all or none.

The loss of function in the system must reach a specific level of failure before medical testing will turn-up anything. Our bodies operate over a wide continuum and most tests can’t evaluate the body’s responses over this wide range.

Because the objective testing has low power to detect any problems, the patient’s symptoms remain unexplained. As a result, treatment options are few and the patient continues to suffer while he’s told that there is nothing wrong.

It’s well understood, not by medicine, that most diseases have multiple causes. Chronic fatigue is a great example of a condition arising from multiple causes. Lower functioning in the immune system is another factor involved in burnout.

Further studies are needed to define the contribution of other issues to burnout such as post-viral syndrome, cellular toxicity, depression, muscle weakness, inadequate diet, and the lack of exercise.

As in all fatigue syndromes, such as chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, multiple chemical sensitivity, and all the milder, non-diagnosable fatigue complexes that millions suffer from, there are no known therapies within the framework of modern medicine.

Interest in alternative therapies grows exponentially. Spending on alternative treatments is actually exceeding the expenditures in using conventional medicine. I work in this area and I can assure you that there are some very powerful modalities available to combat fatigue.

People are finding solutions to their health problems from the use of alternative therapies. They rarely mention this fact to their physicians for fear of a “dressing down” since doctors are generally against any treatments that they don’t control. Most doctors believe that nothing in the alternative treatments of health problems are of any value.

Medicine is against the use of nutritional supplements and admonishes those who support their use. It formed opinions based on a belief system that supplements were of no value, not based on facts. In respect to diet, medicine still promotes low-fat eating despite the fact that it contributes to obesity, diabetes, and inflammatory diseases. Medicine doesn’t explore or do research on any of these topics and often makes unsubstantiated claims while accusing the other side of exactly the same action.