Like others, to me tired is just not getting enough sleep or something. Fatigue is an overwhelming feeling of just being exhausted. There is nothing you can do but lay down and/or sleep. My body just can't go any more and I get a sense of unreality, like everything around me is in slow motion and I just feel blah. Once I nap, I am fine.

I often tell others that it is like coming down with the worst flu you have ever had; where you just need to go to bed. I think that is the only way that others can understand what we feel on a daily basis - only because most people have felt that before.