AndyPR
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Ignore the fact, if you can, that the article is speculating Trump's health. I'm posting this due to the articles fairly reasonable treatment of ME.
https://www.inverse.com/article/31907-donald-trump-exhausted-tired-fatigue-middle-eastIf Trump is suffering from fatigue, he can count it as another thing he has in common with the rest of America. Fatigue takes both acute and chronic forms and is a common complaint among the general population. The former type is the sort of tiredness that usually results after an experience that’s especially physically or emotionally taxing; in a 2015 article in Biological Psychology, researchers, defining fatigue as a “subjective state of exhaustion, tiredness, weakness, and lack of energy that impairs daily activities,” showed evidence for a link between stress and next-day fatigue that was linked by the quality of a person’s sleep. Preventing stress and intervening in sleep-stress cycles, the researchers write, can usually remedy acute fatigue. If this is what he is suffering from, it would probably not hurt for Trump to try getting more than his usual four hours of sleep.
And then there is chronic fatigue syndrome, a more serious, long-term condition affecting over 1 million Americans. It is, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, also not particularly well understood and has a lot of overlap with other conditions, so it’s hard to diagnose. All we know is that it’s the kind of tiredness that won’t go away after taking a nap and lasts for six months or more. It manifests in different ways, both physical and mental. In addition to feeling joint and muscle pain, people with chronic fatigue syndrome tend to have sleep problems, headaches, and issues with memory and concentration.