The "home quarantine" imposed by many countries around the world to curb the spread of the Corona virus has caused a change in the lifestyles of many, and has caused complaints ranging from an inability to do work or study duties and often feeling tired or "ataxia".
Natashas Bijlani, a mental health consultant at Priory Roehampton Hospital, said that the fatigue people complain of, despite sitting at home, is medically called "laziness of sleep", explaining that feeling tired or "ataxia" is a stage between sleep and alertness, that is, The person does not feel fully alert himself.
"People with ataxia feel sleepy, find it difficult to think clearly and can be disoriented for some time after getting up," she added in her interview with the British newspaper "The Independent."
Matthew Walker, professor of neuroscience and psychology at the University of California and author of "Why Do We Sleep?" Says the way the brain wakes up with an old car engine, noting that sleep stagnation occurs when "sleepiness is still lying in the brain," Adding: You can not only run it and then drive very quickly ... It needs time to warm up.
Walker says that the reason a person may suffer from ataxia and fatigue may be due to a variety of reasons, which include: sleeping in a time that is not appropriate to your time pattern; not sleeping long enough, not having a good sleep or an underlying problem in Sleep, such as sleep apnea (a disorder that usually leads to snoring).
Professor Colin Esby, Professor of Sleep Medicine at Oxford University, explains that one of the main reasons people have been feeling so tired lately is not to get enough natural daylight.