When you lose someone you love, the world keeps moving, but it can feel as though your own world has stopped. Grief is not a problem to solve or a checklist to complete. It is a deeply personal process of learning to live with a loss that has changed your life.

Supportive relationships, healthy boundaries, consistent routines, counseling, and trauma-informed approaches such as EMDR or Brainspotting can help people better understand what has caused the sense of chronic alertness and build a greater ability to feel calm and safe.

Fatigue isn't a character flaw, and it isn't always "just stress." It's often your body's way of asking you to look a little deeper.