Posted by wannabe on February 27, 2004, at 4:34:02
In reply to feel physically weak, like have the flu?, posted by chess on February 26, 2004, at 6:27:27
>>anyone else suffer from feeling physically weak all the time, like you have the flu?
I too have felt like flu on a number of occasions, fatigue, pain in the legs, hips and lower back. When I get thatI usually feel like stretching and twisting my legs and hips. I think it's always appeared because of the following probable reason:
TOBACCO consumption, these symptoms appeared both during the phases of excessive tobacco consumption and whenever I have gone off tobacco 'Cold Turkey'
Fatigue, Stress and Anxiety bring out the same flu like symptoms which last for some time and go away when I take deliberate steps to improve and balance my lifestyle.
Lastly, I know it seems funny, but then I distinctly remember getting the flu feeling when I was young and madly in love with a lady with whom I used to over indulge in sex.
THUS, IN MY EXPERIENCE I HAVE HAD THE FLU SYMPTOMS WHENEVER I HAVE LET MY LIFE DRIFT OUT OF BALANCE.> thought i was anemic, but pdoc ruled that out, said it was a symptom of my anxiety/depression.
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> anyone know how depression/anxiety physiologically causes the feeling of physical weakness and fluish-feeling?I recommendation is that, before you begin the vicious circle of meds and pdocs for these flu symptoms, you should try to bring back balance in your life. Have a look at your lifestyle and include simple things like clean balanced living, with good nutrition, some sensible multivitamin support and a gradual but active exercise program, and topped with a deliberate dose of developing and adopting a positive expectant attitude towards life. Give this a genuine 90 day trial and if in case you still have no improvement then go to a pdoc.
Best wishes
WannabeHere's something about balance that I came across, it's a bit long so you may choose to read or skip:
Maintain Balance
When, our sole reason for doing whatever we do, is to give us more life, and not take our life, the word "Balance" becomes the most important word applicable to us. "Never too much and never too less", and at every moment of our lives we have to make decisions in conflicting situations. Conflicts between work and play, conflicts between spending and saving, between career and family. Such conflicts arise in our daily lives as a result of our attempts to perform satisfactorily in two or more roles at the same time. These are the trying moments because conflicts often cause pain, and the most valuable guidance can come only from within, that is from the values we attach to our various roles and goals. We live our lives in terms of roles, not in the sense of role playing but in the sense of authentic parts we have chosen to fill. Roles are the parts that make up the whole of our life. They represent responsibilities, relationships and areas of contribution - at work, in the family, in the community, or in other areas of life. You have personal roles concerning the relationships with the people you care about most, that is to say you could be a parent, a spouse, a friend. There could be roles you have in your work-life or in your areas of contribution. Your work may involve more than one area of responsibility and you may fill in various roles such as an Engineer, or a Business owner, a Developer, an employee, etc. Many people also have significant Social roles in their communities serving as leaders or as volunteers of committees or in religious or social groups. Every person must have a role of constant self renewal because often we get so busy producing results that we forget to renew in order to maintain or increase our capacity this leaves us unable to move forward effectively.
Now using the core set of values, which align with your mission statement select a few roles that are most important to you. To each role select long term goals and make plans that support these roles and goals so that during any moment of conflict you have to simply link with your mission, the selected roles and goals, weigh the situation with your personal value system and its importance to you and arrive at a decision. Such decisions will, over a period of time keep you balanced and effective to achieve more and more in every area of your life, providing a gratifying and fulfilling life.Here are some key methods to strike a balance in life.
1. Exercise - Nothing works emotional stress away better than vigorous exercise that’s well within your physical capacity. The gain is two fold, following a sensible and regular exercise program, will put your body in top physical condition and also drive away stress.
2. Pursue Goals with a difference: - Pursue goals and satisfactions that have nothing to do with your career or with any other troublesome problem area that may be pushing you towards stress and burnout. Pick up a nice hobby. Once when I visited a friend of mine who is also a highly successful top executive of a large company, he was handcrafting a beautiful piece of furniture for his home. This was something totally different from what he was pursuing at work. I asked him why he was doing it, and he said that he loved handcrafting and it helped him to forget everything else when he was engrossed in crafting. This helped him to keep his life in balance. He was pursuing a goal with a difference.
3. Take short Breaks - If you feel so pressed that you never take a five minute break away from your desk, you’re not running your job, your job is running you. Get away from you job and do something different. When you come back you’ll feel refreshed again and ready to charge again.
4. Dwell on the fun side - Every job has a positive and a negative element, the fun side and the boring side. Spend more time thinking about the positive and joyous aspects and enjoy life while giving your utmost to the job.
5. Take a long break - The most effective treatment to overcome stress and prevent burnout is to schedule long and immediate vacation. After all the hard work you have done which resulted in stress you can certainly reward yourself with a vacation. If however you don’t feel upto the mark, if you still feel stressed out you should seriously consider a change in your work environment to prevent going into the final stages of a burnout.
6. Throw off the chains of chemical dependency - Don’t use tranquilizers, sleeping pills, headache pills and other central nervous system depressants. Instead, reorganize your activities. Reduce the excessive demands you’ve been putting on your system. Relax, get into balance, and start enjoying your life while you keep your career booming along.
7. Actively seek new ideas and experiences - Open your mind. Try doing things you’ve never done before, sample foods you’ve never eaten, visit places you’ve never seen. Let loose, just let loose just for the sake of it.Stress and burnout are a very heavy price to pay for success, so it is in your own interests to keep yourselves in balance achieving the most, and living life to its fullest, knowing and understanding that every moment that we live correctly and in tune with the universal laws, life will pay an appropriate reward. Talking of rewards which life will pay, let’s try to understand the universal law of cause and effect. This law as explained by Newton says “Every action has an Equal and opposite reaction”. ….
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