A Christmas Wolf in Sheep's clothing - Exhaustion as loneliness.

I have always thought of exhaustion as a physical thing. The outer limit of fatigue. An elevated, adult sense of tiredness that comes from our own sense of just doing too much. It's personal, of course, because we each have our own sliding scale of feeling "sapped", which varies with age, fitness and foibles.

But let's take a minute to look at exhaustion through a different lens. As a cause rather than an effect - the result of something much deeper than that old chestnut of "so much to do, so little time"... Here, is where it starts to get interesting - is exhaustion the simple result of overdoing it, or does something else bubble beneath the surface?

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