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Do You F*cking Mind?

Science Fact: Chronic Fatigue

Do You F*cking Mind?

Alexis Fernandez-Preiksa - Neuroscientist and Mindset Coach

Self-improvement, Mental Health, Education, Health & Fitness

4.9914 Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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0:00.0

Let's get straight into the brain fact of the brain fact is chronic fatigue syndrome and dealing with general fatigue.

0:18.7

Okay.

0:19.5

So chronic fatigue syndrome is also known as myelagic encephalomyelitis.

0:27.1

Say that 10 times in a row when you're drunk, okay? So basically it's an illness, which is defined by a

0:34.4

combination of symptoms. And it is something that you need to get diagnosed with.

0:39.1

You can't just self-diagnose it.

0:40.5

You need someone to kind of let you know what's going on.

0:43.5

So the first thing is profound fatigue, where you are feeling tired or fatigued.

0:48.4

Then along with that is impaired memory and concentration,

0:53.6

muscle and joint pain, headaches, and then something

0:57.7

called post-exertional malaise, which is basically a worsening of those symptoms after exertion

1:05.2

and relatively minimal exertion. So you'll do something that normally wouldn't require

1:10.8

that much effort that normally wouldn't require that much effort that normally

1:12.2

wouldn't tie you out and then you feel a worsening of the above symptoms that I just mentioned.

1:17.8

Like you'll be even more tied. You'll feel really sore. You'll get more of a headache.

1:21.2

Your memory and concentration is just shot to pieces. So it's obviously very debilitating

1:26.3

this chronic fatigue syndrome.

1:29.0

And this post-exertional malaise is also common in something called fibromyalgia as well.

1:34.5

Now, there is a difference that doctors or scientists are able to see in the central nervous

1:39.5

system of patients that suffer from this chronic fatigue syndrome.

1:43.8

And it's got to do with the spinal fluid.

1:46.8

So when they analyze the cerebral spinal fluid of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome

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