We're All as Tired as Post Malone Right Now (per the CDC)

I was driving to get coffee with my husband the other day when he turned to me, completely out of nowhere, and said, “Why am I always tired?”

I almost laughed, because same (Post Malone has that tattooed on his face for a reason), but he picked a good time to ask. The CDC just put out a report on exactly this, and about one in six U.S. adults said they feel fatigued most days, or every day. Not regular tired. The kind that doesn’t go away with sleep. And for many of the people in that group, it wasn’t mild; it was a lot. I used to think more sleep would fix it, but apparently that’s not really how it works (even if you use a silk pillowcase).

The same report found it’s worse for younger adults than older ones, and that women are more likely than men to land in that most-days-or-every-day group — surprising absolutely no one. Which means, statistically, I’m the one who’s supposed to be asking that question in this car, not him.

Usually when women talk about being tired, it’s the mental load. But my husband is actually good at that part: we split the three kids, the doctor’s appointments, the permission slips, who has practice when, pretty evenly. If he’s doing his half and he’s still that tired, something else might be going on.

So I handed him my coffee and told him to go book a physical, which, for the record, I already did in March.