fatigue or laziness?

Yes this topic is about attention. Two questions I have recently.
1. What is it about attention that if someone “asks for it” no one wants to give it? If someone wants a loan no body minds lending. If someone wants a kind word or encouragement people give it. If someone wants a lift people give him. But if someone “just wants attention” then everyone has to ignore him?
2. There are so many times people do weird or loud or different things and people run to say they’re just doing it for attention. and so many times that’s no true. Let’s say you have a tenth grader standing on his desk in middle of math class and screaming and one of the more mature kids say “You just want attention.” Which could be not true at all. Maybe he just finds it very funny. In fact, if someone els would do it he’d find it funny and enjoy it so obviously his actions have nothing to do with attention, it’s just he finds it funny and wants it done–doesn’t matter who does it.
Or you have a guy who lights his menorah outside and someone walks by and mutters it’s not the minhag he just wants attention. Like how dumb is that? Maybe the guy’s a big machmir maybe he doesn’t know halacha maybe he does know halacha and the passer by is wrong–whatever, why are people always running to say oh its just for attention?

If you WANT to do something but are too tired it’s fatigue.
If you HAVE to do something you don’t want to do but are suddenly too tired its laziness.

My guess is if you care enough to ask, it’s not laziness.

Here are some possible causes:

DSM – see ADHD
It’s much different than people think it is. Can cause issues getting started with tasks. Looks lazy from the outside, but weird brain chemistry on the inside. If you are always running late or procrastinating tasks or feeling tired specifically when bored it could be this.
A neuropsychological evaluation can check for this with a series of tests.

Depression can make it hard to get out of bed or get motivated even with sufficient rest.

Underlying medical issues can cause fatigue. Some are hard to diagnose and often missed by doctors.
Sleep issues such as sleep apnea and restless leg syndrome’s lesser known cousin perioc limb movement disorder, can interupt your sleep without you being aware of it. If you wake up after a full night’s rest still feeling exhausted could be this.
A sleep study can diagnose.

Digestive issues like celiac disease and IBD-Crohns/UC which is very common among Jews but incredibly hard to get correctly diagnosed.
See a Gastroenterologist.

Thyroid issues and Anemia can cause fatigue. Get a bloodwork panel.

Hope this helps!

If you are a teenage girl still in bed on a Shabbos or Sunday morning at 11:30 AM, it’s definitely not fatigue.

What is the difference between עיף and יעף? Why is the word for “tired” עיף but in ברכות השחר we say הנותן ליעף כח?
The answer has to do with putting עשו before יעקב
עשו was the first to say עיף, he put himself before יעקב
Also when we remember Amalek we say עיף
When you put יעקב before עשו you say יעף