It’s rare these days to pick up a newspaper and not read something about an entertainer being hospitalized for exhaustion. Yet a review of the table of contents, index and symptom/diagnosis charts in the standard medical reference books makes one realize that there is no disease or illness actually named exhaustion.

So why are so many entertainers and thousands of regular people hospitalized for something that doesn’t even exist? Exhaustion actually exists, but since it is generally a combination of a number of different symptoms, it is difficult to categorize.