Bai Zhi (female), 36 years old, is currently working as a technical director in a very competitive foreign company. she was headhunted into this company 5 years ago. She is a very dedicated person, working very hard and sparing no effort to do things. In less than a year, she was promoted from the technical backbone to the technical director of the company. The position was promoted, the salary was high, but the time left for herself and her family was less and less, and it became a luxury to have a complete dinner with her family. During the day, always non-stop flying around, half of the year in the business trip, as long as there is time to open the computer work, in the flight can take a nap is also considered a rare break, simply eat a meal so beautiful. Every day, we have to deal with hundreds of business emails from home and abroad. Even when I go home, I have to put my laptop on the sofa, put my iPad on my left hand, put my iphone on my right hand, and turn on the TV in front of me, so I’m busy. Studio Psychiatry Ling Jao-ngang A year ago, her 4-year-old daughter started to complain that she didn’t play with her baby like other mothers in kindergarten, and she could only stay with her daughter for a while when she came home. Although my husband understood that his wife was busy and took on the family business, he usually had a lot of complaints. Over the years, the family’s income has increased significantly, but not as much as in previous years when the family lived in poverty and could often organize trips to relax their tired bodies. Now, according to the ability to pay, it is no problem to organize two trips to Europe for the family every year, but what about time? I always feel that there is not enough time, and I can’t even sleep without dreaming. Daughter and Mr. unhappy, also let Bai Zhi began to ask themselves so busy in the end is why? What do people live for in the end? What is the meaning of life in the end? Family – career – entertainment, which one do you want? Gradually, she began to feel physically and mentally exhausted, serious lack of sleep, no enthusiasm for life after waking up, do not want to go to work on Monday, feel fatigue, physical weakness, often feel their own body fever, sore throat, back pain, memory loss, sometimes suddenly can not tell where they are, mood slowly depressed up, attention is not as focused as before, the brain is slow to react, insomnia, sleeplessness, loss of appetite, etc.. When he went to the hospital for physical examination, no obvious physical or laboratory abnormalities were found. On the advice of her internist, she went to a high-end psychological service center for psychological counseling. Under the doctor’s questioning she remembered that she had been having irregular periods for years, always felt that married life was not interesting, often left her husband cold, and felt that he was inconsiderate and tired. She also admitted that the quality of her life was not as good as before, and her material life was greatly enriched, but she did not have the happiness she had before. As she is often unable to accompany her daughter, she is very close to her husband and distant from herself. Deep inside, I often feel that it is meaningless to live, emotionally unstable, agitated, confused, and often think how to struggle to eventually escape death! In modern urban life, there are few people with illnesses similar to Bai Zhi. So what’s wrong with the dahlias? This tiredness is a normal reaction, or a disease? In fact, this is the performance of chronic fatigue syndrome. What is chronic fatigue syndrome? Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) is a disease characterized by severe and persistent fatigue, which can seriously affect the daily life of the patient due to extreme fatigue, making him or her unable to work or study for a long time, causing great stress to society, families and individuals. Since the diagnosis of chronic fatigue syndrome was first proposed by the Centers for Disease Control in 1988, the incidence of CFS has gradually increased in the past 20 years as the pace of social life has accelerated, and its adverse effects on human life have attracted more and more attention and become a social disease. The situation is particularly serious among people with high work intensity and high benefit creation, such as brain workers and management personnel, and thus has a great impact on the development of social productivity. The syndrome is also known as “yuppie flu” because it is predominantly suffered by middle and high income earners and people in their 30s and 40s with high educational backgrounds, and is more common. This lingering feeling of severe fatigue is more from the stress in life, emotional disturbances, interpersonal relationships, workplace emergencies and so on. So chronic fatigue is not really physical fatigue, but psychological fatigue, which is what used to be called neurosis syndrome. Do you have CFS? The diagnosis of the disease currently relies mainly on clinical symptoms. The internationally accepted criteria for diagnosing CFS were revised by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in 1994 and are now widely used. The following is the 1994 CDC revised criteria for the diagnosis of CFS 1. persistent or recurrent chronic fatigue that cannot be explained clinically, that has a definite onset, that is not the result of sustained exertion, that is not significantly relieved by rest, and that results in a significant decrease in the level of work, study, social life, or personal activity; 2. four or more of the symptoms described below occur simultaneously, and these symptoms have persisted or recurred for 6 months or longer, but should not precede fatigue: a. Significant decrease in short-term memory or ability to concentrate; b. Sore throat; c. Swollen, tender lymph nodes in the neck or axilla; d. Muscle pain; e. Pain in multiple joints without redness or swelling; f. A headache that is different and severe than before; g. Sleep that cannot be relieved; h. Fatigue after exercise that lasts more than 24 hours. In short, you should consider yourself to have CFS if you have been suffering from persistent or recurrent episodes of severe fatigue (lasting for more than 6 months) accompanied by memory loss, concentration problems, physical discomfort, etc. The danger of CFS A global survey by the World Health Organization shows that only 5% of people are truly healthy, 20% suffer from disease, and 75% are in a state of subhealth. Sub-health, also known as third state, sub-clinical, pre-clinical, latent, etc., is a state between health and disease, with no clinical symptoms or mild symptoms, but with underlying pathological information. The most important manifestation is chronic fatigue syndrome. Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is a specific manifestation of the subhealth state. The fatigue brought about by CFS cannot be relieved by a good sleep and relaxation, it will unknowingly destroy the normal function of the body organs, making people decline before they grow old and shorten their life span. The common harmful aspects are: 1. consume physical energy, brain energy, so in addition to feeling tired and weak, but also feel the body imbalance, coordination becomes poor, it is difficult to perform endurance work, as well as delicate, delicate work. 2. Insufficient blood supply to the brain causes “brain weakness” symptoms, such as memory loss, lack of concentration, slow reaction time, and dizziness and headache. Difficulty in falling asleep or sleeping deeply, easily waking up, etc. At the same time, lack of sleep will aggravate brain fatigue, and so on, forming a vicious circle. 3. Psychiatric symptoms, such as depression, anxiety, irritability, agitation, a sense of distortion of reality, a sense of loss of life, suicidal thoughts or secondary anxiety and depression, etc., may appear. 4. The persistence of symptoms may cause the patient’s face to lose its glow, hair loss and hair breakage, wrinkles appear, facial muscle relaxation, facial pigmentation aggravates, and ageing before aging. 5. damage to the human immune system, CFS long-term presence will lead to weakened immune function, organ dysfunction, giving the opportunity for disease, and other human systems, susceptible to colds, asthma, irritable bowel syndrome, gastroenteritis, ulcer disease, etc.. 6. It affects the endocrine system, making it easy to suffer from goiter, hyperlipidemia, diabetes, weakened sexual function, female menstrual disorders and even amenorrhea, etc. How to prevent and treat? Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe left the political arena prematurely, the meteoric rise in the life of Leslie Cheung, the president of Fashion Media Group, and the sudden death of Wu Hong, all of them have a common feature, that is, they overdraw their lives, work excessively, and regard their work as their lives. Although no one has diagnosed them with CFS, but comprehensive media reports, it is not difficult to see that they are all overspending their lives and consuming their energy prematurely. We know that in order to become an elite, one must put in more energy than the average person, and to become an elite one must use time to accumulate, but the natural paradox is that when the elite have spent years of struggle just hesitantly, and life appears to end prematurely. Looking at the lives of the elite, it is easy to see that they are not only overworked, there is excessive socializing, excessive drinking, staying up late, etc.. Treating themselves in this way, how can they not accelerate the loss and destruction of their own lives? If the pace of life is slightly adjusted, the mindset of the debugging, then their lives may live past the official statistics of 58 years old (elite death average years) or close to the average life expectancy of the urban population (Beijing in 2004, 79.24 years old for men and 81.51 years old for women). To make your life close to or exceed the per capita life expectancy, the first thing you need to do to avoid making yourself suffer from CFS is to prevent it. When the body sends out fatigue signals, it may indicate that you will be in the precursor of CFS: First, pay attention to the diet structure adjustment. Eat less high-oil, high-fat, high-calorie food, eat more fruits and vegetables, do not rely on strong tea and coffee when you feel sleepy; second, regular life, eating regular. Work and rest time is relatively regular, appropriate exercise, preferred outdoor sports, walking, running, etc. can help eliminate physical and mental fatigue. Not to snack instead of the main meal, avoid eating late night snacks; third, increase the interest in life. Listen to more soothing music, research has found that music can help distract people, thus breaking down stress and fatigue. The opportunity to spend more time with the family; fourth, the tendency to “workaholic” people, you can pursue perfection, but do not rush. After 1-2 hours of continuous work to take a break, such as stand up and stretch, walk around, drink a glass of water, move your legs and feet; fifth, to establish a good psychological support environment. Harmonious interpersonal relationships at work and family harmony are essential to avoid CFS and improve the quality of life. If the signs of fatigue, which cannot be relieved by rest, and lead to the disruption of normal life and work, you should promptly visit a mental health specialist hospital or professional psychological institution to obtain psychological treatment. There is no special treatment for CFS, and most of the clinical treatment is in accordance with the treatment of anxiety and depression. Systematic psychotherapy is a proven way to find a suitable psychologist, just like finding a caring person who can release psychological pressure, dispel bad emotions, bring into play potential kinetic energy, and rejuvenate work. And learn to maintain individual mental health from it, which is the very key preventive and therapeutic measures. The most important thing in a person’s life is life is health. Money and wealth, positions of power, knowledge and talent, fame and status, family and friendships, and so on, all have to be carried by life, and all will increase in value because of health. Lose health will lose life, without life your original or your? So, in your concern about the property market, the stock market, the car market at the same time, please pay attention to their own bodies and minds as a top priority, do not take fatigue improper.