Exhaustion : A History, Hardcover by Schaffner, Anna Katharina, ISBN 0231172303, ISBN-13 9780231172301, Brand New, Free shipping in the US This book helps us evaluate more critically the narratives we tell ourselves about exhaustion. By uniting the mind with the body and society , we attach larger questions of agency, willpower, and well-being to its symptoms. Exhaustion finds in our struggle to overcome weariness a more significant effort to master ourselves.