Trauma · Assessment
Racial Battle Fatigue Tracker
Seven days of cumulative load, not single events
Racial battle fatigue is cumulative: no single incident explains the exhaustion, and the tally is what makes it visible. Seven rows, one per day, tracking load rather than events.
Daily load
Day
Vigilance 0-10
Code-switching hours
Slights let go
Body signal
What I had left for myself
Reading the week
Which setting takes the most — work, study, healthcare, public space, family
What is the first thing to drop when the load is high (sleep, food, contact, exercise)
Where recovery actually happens, and how much of the week it gets
Average vigilance across the week (0-10)
nonemost
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Fatigue is not fragility
Chronic vigilance in a setting that repeatedly requires it is an accurate response to that setting. The intervention targets recovery time and exposure dose, not the client's sensitivity.