Tired all the Time: What the Stress of 2020 is Still Doing to You

You aren’t lazy. You are suffering the aftershocks of pandemic stress.

Brandy L Schillace
Elemental
Published in
5 min readJul 12, 2021

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There’s a kind of pleasant fatigue that comes from a day of physical activity — hiking, biking, swimming, running. But this? This isn’t it. You feel exhausted, overwhelmed, anxious and even depressed. The heaviness of your limbs is only…

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Brandy L Schillace
Elemental

(skil-AH-chay) Author in #history, #science, & #medicine. Bylines: SciAm, Globe&Mail, WIRED, WSJ. EIC Medical Humanities. Host of Peculiar Book Club. she/her