Fatigue; Physical or Mental?
2005.08.29 11:19

Physical fatigue can be cured by good night sleep, nutritious diet, airing, outing, appropriate excercise, etc., but when it comes to mental fatigue things are not so easy. Both fatigues -physical and mental have to be discharged before they start accumulating, but be careful not to let them in in the case of mental fafigue, since mental one is easy to get in but, hard to get out. In the case of physical fatigue, get in get out same degree, unless we load it over.
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All generalizations are false(Score:2)
by sam_handelman (519767) <skh2003 @ c o l u m b i a . edu> on 2005.08.29 11:38 (#13424027) (http://www.columbia....ndelman/student.html Last Journal: 2005.09.25 2:38)
Different types of fatigue are not really the same thing - if something is not addressed by rest, it shouldn't be called fatigue.Muscles, for example, can be fatigued by lactic acid buildup.Repeated impacts can lead to an entirely different sort of muscle fatigue (having to do with microscopic injuries, among other things.)You can group these things under one heading and call it "fatigue", but that doesn't make them the same in any real sense.Both of these phenomena which we call "fatigue" are best addressed through rest, but the same is true of many mental processes associated with feelings of wariness - depletion of certain classes of neurotransmitters, for example, is clearly mental fatigue (and is addressed by sleep.) The same is true of the less well understood form(s) of mental fatigueUnhappiness and boredom, on the other hand, cannot be remediated by rest - but I don't regard them as a form of fatigue. The usage is common, but people also commonly refer to really liking chocolate as a form of addiction - which it isn't, under any useful or meaningful definition of addiction.--Just getting to hurt people and ruin stuff is reward enough for the rubber pants commandos!
Re:All generalizations are false(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2005.08.30 15:23 (#13433549) (http://slashdot.org/~mercedo/journal/109855 Last Journal: 2005.10.01 16:45)
Yeah, that's right, my argument is too generalised. Next time I intend to analyse many phenomena associated with some one 'notion'- e.g. fatigue. And I should like to examine more precisely so that many people could agree on it.--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters