Exercise! If you can get out and walk briskly for 15 minutes a day, you'll increase your energy levels. Then increase to 30 minutes and maybe add some swimming or Yoga. Yoga works wonders. You can heal yourself from the inside out with yoga. I do Bikram, which is done in a hot room, but if that doesn't sound appealing to you, there are all kinds of yoga. You don't have to be a pretzel to do yoga. You will get 80% of the benefits by just following the instructors dialog and going to your own personal edge.
I also recommend changing your diet. I don't know what your diet consists of but I would think about giving up wheat and dairy for a month-- see if that helps. And don't eat anything that comes in a box-- preservatives can affect your health. Eat more fruit and veggies and leafy green salads. Eat a good breakfast too-- oatmeal or fruit.
I think there's a book called Energy Boosters about foods that you can eat to get more energy.
And, yes-- it's good advice to stay out of the bedroom except for 8 hours of sleep per night.
Keep busy doing things for others (volunteering is great medicine) and you'll soon forget about how tired you were.
Good luck!
-k.
By the way, cats sleep for about 16 hours a day... maybe you were a cat in a past life? ;-)
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