The impact of fatigue on daily life
Photo by Kaleb Dortono on Unsplash In this post, we hear from Bernie about his experiences of living with fatigue after brain injury. What is fatigue like for you? Well, it all falls into two buckets. So I feel mentally tired and therefore my language goes. After a busy week, my conversation goes and I feel like I can't communicate quickly or clearly. Then with my walking, it is fine in an open space, but walking in crowds or enclosed spaces takes more mental capacity to make it happen. The damage to my brain was mostly went to my left hand side and I was paralysed on the right hand, right arm, right foot and leg. Nowadays, fatigue for me is weird because my body feels fine, but my mind just lacks clarity. It's alike a brain block; I can't really describe it better than that. It's like a block in the brain. Doing anything requires a process. If somebody interrupts me, it just breaks the process. So I have to live my life in series, not in parallel. If I want ...