lazy versus real fatigue?

[barose]

Sometimes I feel like I'm just lazy, LOL. I keep reading about how raw people don't need as much sleep but I can still sleep a good 8-10 hours a night, easy and still feel like crap. What gives? No matter what (raw or not), does some of us need more sleep?

I also have the urge to just take 3-6 months off and NOT WORK (at my normal jobs) I feel so drained The other day, I felt envy at at learning that my DP's friend just came back from a 3 week vacation. That last time I went away for longer than four days was in 1999, but then again - unlike him, I don't have two teenagers and a business to maintain.

Where do you draw the line between being lazy and truly tired? How long does one have to be raw to need less sleep and less rest? I am really looking forward to less sleep.

[juliebove]

I think there's a big difference between being lazy and just being tired. I can remember working at a job I hated and calling in sick on occasion when I wasn't really sick. Oh I felt sick, just thinking about going in to work. Heh! But I wasn't. I just stayed home, laying around and watching TV or reading a book or maybe even catching up on sleep. I do think there are times when we just have to do that, even when we're at a job that we do like. Sometimes things just get overwhelming.

When I think of lazy, I am reminded of a coworker I had many years ago. We worked in the layaway dept. of a store. When the layaway window wasn't busy, we were supposed to busy ourselves in the surrounding departments of curtains, sheets, yarn, etc. We were to straighten and fill the counters. And we all did that. Except for this one woman. Instead, she found a chair, or if she couldn't find a chair, then a box. She'd sit on it and not move. Time and time again she was reminded that she had other duties besides the layaway window, but she'd just sigh and do nothing. Even when she was in the layaway office, she didn't move very fast at all, and always had to call someone over to help her because she couldn't ever figure out how to do things, no matter how many times she was shown.

Now it's possible my coworker had some sort of medical condition that she didn't want us to know about. I guess I'll never know. She quit after about two weeks, and none of us got to know her well.

That's just one example. I see laziness in my house all the time. I shall name no names. But they open a package of something and leave the wrapper wherever they are. They peel an orange and just leave the peel to sit. They eat a dish of something and leave the dish sitting. They just expect that someone else (me) will come along behind them and pick it up. Same goes for the dirty clothes that they leave on the floor, couch, bed, wherever.

This kind of stuff, I can't understand. Perhaps with them, part of it is a power play thing. I don't want to do it and you can't MAKE me! But it comes off as laziness to me.

Tiredness or sleepiness is another matter. I had assorted medical problems and there are times when I just can't seem to stay awake. When my daughter was a baby it was horrid. I'd fall asleep on the floor, using my own body as a baby gate. We had a tiny apartment and I'd have her blocked off in the corner. It was either that or I'd fall asleep in the recliner with her in my lap. Of course I didn't get much sleep because she was good at waking me up. Which was probably part of the reason why I was so sleepy all the time. Heh!

I also don't sleep well at night. I can't go to bed early. If I do, I sleep for an hour or two and wake up, feeling wide awake. But during the day? I can sleep until dinner time! Always has been this way. I think we all have different internal clocks.

[barose]

Yup, I cant go to bed early either no matter what. I would just lay there. Even reading a dull book doesn't help. I was in a 3 hour interview today and I swear I was going to fall asleep with my face hitting the table. I had to hold back 4 major yawns during the second hour. I want out so bad.

I also been on my period since Saturday and its been heavy and usual; that is also so draining.

I used to call in sick like that too. We had unlimited sick leave at my last company, I just made sure I didnt burn it out.

[spicyfull]

Tired....Make a list of all the things you have done today.(sometimes we forget all 11 dozens things that we have done). I have to do that because when I think about all the work I do BEFORE I go to my job....I am TRD..

Lazy...When EVERYTHING is building up around you and it doesn't concern you.

Detox...When your Body is in a State of Ridding Toxins and has no energy for much else. And it is wise to REST if at all possible.

Sometimes Energy comes and detox returns. Steal a Vacation, even if its just a day at the Beach.

ALWAYS MAKE SOME ME TIME...

[moonstar]

This is a good post. I can relate to all of the things discussed...

When I am on my period, I am soooooo tired, as well as the week before. I am praying that raw is going to help this -- it has in the past --- but the anxiety of the anticipation of knowing how I am going to feel makes me re-arrange my life around all of it...

[moonstar]

...I would also add overwhelmed to the list...

THAT can contribute to everything -- fatigue, tiredness, depression, anxiety, etc...

[Stina]

Yeah, I'm a college graduate cleaning houses for a living. I could be cleaning more houses and make more money but it's hard to get motivated. Going back to working in a normal office with that awful florescent lighting, spending more time with co-workers than family, doing something that's probably not going to be meaningful to me, ugh.... what a drain.

I might be a little lazy but I need some inspiration!