> While widespread strategies to recover from mental exhaustion (i.e., watching TV) are non-effective, I worked for a startup from 2015 to 2017. During that time I'd sometimes work 10-14 hours for 2-3 days in a row. When I was tired after lunch I'd just tell my colleagues I was tired and would take a gaming break and then go play 1 or 2 maps of CS:GO in casual mode before working 5-7 hours more after the brain fog ha…
Acute aerobic exercise to recover from mental exhaustion
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1-2 5 min games of chess does it for me
Re: Acute aerobic exercise to recover from mental exhaustion
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can you explain what is ME/CFS and how you recovered ?
ME/CFS is a chronic condition characterized by debilitating fatigue and, specifically, post-exertional malaise. Patients who suffer from ME/CFS will have very debilitating negative reactions to any exertion past a certain threshold. The negative reaction can be delayed by 24 hours in some and it can be severe enough to make jobs or daily activities anywhere from difficult to nearly impossible. Importantly, the delaye…
thank you for your answer, this was very informative, I got caught into the ME/CFS rabbit hole for a few days, sorry for the delay coming back to your comment. A lot of things make sense for my situation of feeling tired all the time, even with some breaks and regular off time I can easily go from well rested to feeling like crap.
I'm really grateful to have seen your comment and that you answered me, I will do some experiments and tests to asses my situation better and check if some of the solutions can help.