The Relentless Fatigue of Depression

The mental disorder is much more than ‘sadness’

Jeff Hayward
The Taoist Online
Published in
6 min readFeb 13, 2024

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If you look up the common symptoms of depression on a major health website, you’ll see words near the top of the lists such as “sad,” “hopeless,” and “irritable.”

Those are all true, and they’re symptoms I’ve experience myself. However, many of these sites mention another depression symptom…

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