Re: emotional/psychological effects of adrenal insufficiency

[Guest guest]

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> Hi everyone,

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> I realize now I've had adrenal exhaustion for a very long time. I've

> just started with cortisol etc. and am beginning to intuit and

> experience how the insufficiency of these hormones might have been

> affecting me emotionally and psychologically. I'm wondering if anyone

> else's experience is similar.

Yes, I have found this too. If I'm too low on cortisol, I can get

depressed, fearful and listless with a lack of motivation. I also get

dizzy.

Carole

[Guest guest]

Yes, everything that you are saying is very familiar to me.

Be sure to look for all sorts of ways to support adrenals. I was

amazed, for example, how much better I felt with simple diet changes,

and supplement additions long before I ever was prescribed cortisol.

Stress reduction will also help tremendously. One may think that

stress reduction is impossible with the list of problems that we fact,

but there are some simple things that we can do, like listen to our

favorite music (my iPod is my friend), meditation, laughter, and so on

and so forth.

There are many helpful strategies discussed in the adrenal section of

Amalgam Illness. I have to reread it all the time.

J

>

> Hi everyone,

>

> I realize now I've had adrenal exhaustion for a very long time. I've

> just started with cortisol etc. and am beginning to intuit and

> experience how the insufficiency of these hormones might have been

> affecting me emotionally and psychologically. I'm wondering if anyone

> else's experience is similar.

>

> It seems like the inability to respond appropriately to stress with

> adrenal insufficiency is more than a physiological phenomenon. I

> thought most of my struggle was simply due to physical fatigue, but

> now it seems with the hormone supplementation that there is a like a

> " switch " that maybe gets turned on that helps you respond to stress

> that is more than just an increase in energy. It seems there is also a

> psychological and emotional component - and I think this switch was

> totally inoperable before. The inoperable switch would translate

> metaphorically into something akin to not being able to do anything to

> respond appropriately if the house caught fire. It might look like

> procrastination or ADD - like a deer frozen in the headlights (a

> metaphor a friend once used to describe me!), but maybe it's just this

> switch never got turned on - or more accurately, it was left on all

> the time and eventually burned out. Does that sound familiar to anyone?

>

> I feel like I'm waking up all of a sudden, prepared to do what I

> seemed unable to do to deal with states of crisis previously (the

> crisis has been chronic actually, in terms of my financial reality and

> in many other senses) and it's not just about having more physical

> energy. Or at least I'm hoping this is the case! Any comments would be

> appreciated!

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