Understand your fatigue. Find what works for you.
Take Charge! helps children and young people understand fatigue, work out what it is like for them, find things that might help, and tell other people what they need.
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What can Take Charge! help me do?
Builds understanding
Easy explanations supported by animation, lived experience and optional deeper science.
Makes fatigue personal
Work out the types, patterns and signs of fatigue that fit your own experience.
Explores strategies
Practical ideas for home, school and everyday life.
Supports self-advocacy
My Power Bank turns what you learn into a tool to tell others what you need.
“Fatigue isn’t just being tired.”
Young people and families describe the difference between ordinary tiredness and fatigue, including why rest does not always fully recharge the battery.
“It’s not being lazy. It’s not an excuse… if you could, you would.”
Different people. Different fatigue.
Take Charge! helps a young person explore the types of fatigue that fit their own experience.
Physical
Fatigue in the body.
Cognitive
Thinking and processing.
Sensory
Noise, light and busy places.
Emotional
Managing feelings.
Social
Being around people.
My Power Bank
As part of Take Charge!, you can create a one-page document that describes what fatigue is like for you and the strategies that help you. You can share it with teachers and others in your life.
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Built with young people, for young people.
Young people, families and clinicians helped shape what Take Charge! says, how it works and how fatigue is shown.
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