A friend tells you that he feels “extremely drained,” you immediately know what he means.
It may not be an official medical diagnosis, but it does a fine job describing a feeling with which both men and women are familiar: The sluggishness, weariness, and overall absence of energy that keeps us from functioning efficiently. The human equivalent of a grey winter’s day.
How do we typically deal with this languor and lethargy? We eat carbs or drink wine or mindlessly swipe through social media until we fall asleep. But these are merely coping mechanisms which ignore the fact that being “extremely drained” not only describes mental and physical malaise, it can be the sign of underlying medical conditions that demand our attention.
Your sluggishness, weariness, and overall absence of energy can be signs of serious underlying medical conditions.
