12 Surprising Things That Are Making You Tired
Energy Booster: Be Serious About Fun
Build in pleasure throughout your day—open all e-mail jokes and pass them on, flip through a magazine, call a friend, daydream, waste time, play Twister with your kids, buy a CD and play it while you're car pooling. Instead of bogging you down, mini-breaks will buoy you and make your routine a little less routine.
For sleeping in the day, it seems a high dose, so if you object, read Russel Reiter's "melatonin" he has done all the major research on this very interesting hormone, I find I must take a 50 mg dose to get to sleep. All the other suggestions haven't made a difference (darken the room etc. ) Melatonin is also, Reiter found, a profoundly important hormone for the immune system. That is why our healing takes place while we sleep, that is why we sleep when we are sick. It is also important ofr our puberty and sexual development.
Fluorescent lights really drain your energy.
When I worked as a nurse, I found that switching shifts was very difficult. You get used to one shift & you then have to change shifts. Everything is switched around, including how your body works. I found that I was so tired after I worked night shift, although I did my work very well, that I couldn't sleep properly during the day. I also found that when you work nights, you eat a meal around 3 or 4 a.m. because you are really hungry. Then, when I went back to working day shifts, I would waken in the night around 3 or 4, ready to eat a meal. My doctor wanted to give me a paper saying that I could not work night shift, but I knew that the hospital would not be interested in accepting it. The usual thing they say is "That's the way we've always done it and that's the way we'll always do it."
Clearly fatigue with a night shift job is a problem and finding the energy to do anything outside of work is an issue. I would suggest a few things: 1. Light therapy when you are up....very bright lights. (same problem in nordic countries during the winter) 2. Is it possible to do a rotating shift?
Yes, Germany does have sun....but not at night. It also sounds like you might be suffering from a bit of depression as a result of constant night shirft. Try light therapy, time off if possible, and see a doctor if it does not improve. Good Luck
Steve210 must be exhausted just from trying to spell words correctly. Can't believe he actually holds a job being functionally illiterate.
i go to work on time and word very hard but i seem to be bored.cant fabricart neened things becouse their money and resorses to deside of a plan that everyone agreas uppon. i have told them work . is easeryer by the tools you have to work with. better the tools thebetter to outcome and the more eficiansy overall.between the right tool for the job and workers with skills pluss a genueqwone love of what you ar trying to make of make work.if not proud of the outcome of each and every part then its lost.old school millrights rule but are a dieing breed.
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