Woman perfectly breaks down what people with mental illness mean when they say ‘i’m tired.’

If you're living with a mental illness, you're already aware of how exhausting it is to navigate daily life while handling your mental health. Even the most mundane tasks take twice the effort, and you're often doing it on little sleep to boot.

Still, this extra layer of exhaustion can be confounding to friends and family who don't truly understand what it's like to deal with mental illness.

When the art director and mental health advocate PJ Palits shared an illuminating thread explaining why people with mental illness often say they're tired, it immediately went viral.