Our batteries are running low but they can be recharged Constant fatigue is such a common feature of our 40s and 50s, thanks to mounting pressures at home and at work, that doctors have a nickname for it: TATT, or tired all the time. “As we approach midlife we really get exhausted, and some of it is responsibilities,” says Dr Amy Shah, Harvard doctor and author of I’m So Effing Tired, “families, children and stress.” Add pandemic-induced anxiety, and many are experiencing another level of exhaustion. The number of people complaining of poor sleep rose so sharply last year – from one in six to one in four in August 2020, according to a study from Southampton University – that the phenomenon was nicknamed “coronasomnia”.