Do you know the symptoms of adrenal fatigue?
Do your patients report any of the following:
- Tired for no reason?
- Trouble getting up in the morning?
- Need coffee or colas to keep going?
- Feel run down and stressed?
- Crave salty or sweet snacks?
- Struggling to keep up with life’s daily demands?
- Can’t bounce back from stress or illness?
- Not having fun anymore?
- Decreased sex drive?
If they answer “yes” to at least one of these questions, then they may be suffering from adrenal fatigue (reprinted with permission from Dr. James Wilson’s AdrenalFatigue.org).
And what is adrenal fatigue?
It is a syndrome that occurs when the adrenal gland functions at a sub-normal level, mainly due to the effects of chronic stress.
To learn more about the signs and symptoms of the syndrome, listen to a preview of our interview with James L. Wilson, ND, DC, PhD, who is part of our Clinical Applications of Mind Body Medicine: New Thinking About Stress and the Remarkable Power of PNI teleseminar series.
The agenda for the full interview includes:
- Adrenal fatigue: the signs and symptoms
- Lifestyle variables that affect adrenal fatigue
- Why the diagnosis of adrenal fatigue is so challenging
- Why adrenal fatigue is a perfect example of psychoneuroimmunology
- 4 lifestyle changes that have a powerful effect on the treatment of adrenal fatigue
- Mindfulness practices in the treatment of adrenal fatigue
- The evolutionary role of trauma in the origin of adrenal fatigue
How do you manage chronic stress in your treatments?
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It’s very easy to take on other peoples problems as your own. What I mean is… it’s very easy to try and help other people deal with their issues, however you can’t always be able to help everyone. The best thing you can do for him is let him deal with his own issues and be there for him if he needs someone to talk to. If he thinks that he is stupid and has no future and he wants to be a bum…. then maybe he should get a taste of that life to set him straight. He will find through his own trials and errors that lifestyle is not very glamorous. There is no need for you to set yourself into a panic for things that are out of your control. You can pray for him and hope that he opens his eyes and sees that his choices are not in his best interest. We are unable to change people, but the best thing we can do is try to live our own lives and set a good example and hope for others to follow. You are a very strong woman and you have been through a lot. Keep your head up and all this will work itself out.
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I collapsed in Macy’s Deptartment store one day two years ago and was not able to get back up and resume my normal life. I had to quit my job in the counseling center at the university that I was attending and stop all of my recreational activities. I did not know what was wrong with me. One year later, I had no improvement. I sought further medical tests (extensively), and the doctor’s found nothing. I had a minor surgery, which I should have recovered from in 5 days and it took 3 1/2 weeks. After much prayer (seriously), I felt the Lord lead me to read James Wilson’s book on adrenal fatigue. I found myself throughout all of the pages and finally understood what was happening to me. I went to his website and purchased his supplements and began improving rapidly. Before the supplements, it was hard to dress myself and go down stairs to a neighborhood bible study. I certainly couldn’t drive out of town. After taking his supplements, I was able to resume a large portion of my daily activites but couldn’t return to work yet. It has been over two years and I have been on the supplements for nine months. I am still in recovery and am looking forward to feeling much better in the future.
There is much more to say about adrenal fatigue which I will not address on this comment board because you will hear about it in his interview. In my particular situation, my adrenal fatigue resulted due to five years of continual chronic stress (dad’s death, mom’s heart attack in my car, bad relationship, moving, graduate school, sexual harrassment, and being robbed…just to mention a few). Many of the situations, I could do very little about. It was just a combination of the trials of life. Fortunately, these trials are over and I am on the road to recovery. Thank you, James Wilson, for your care, research, remedies, and answers for those who suffer from adrenal fatigue.
It took me three solid years to recover from adrenal fatigue with the good care of a savvy integrative medicine doctor, and many positive lifestyle changes. It was very difficult to get the attention of the mainstream medical community who didn’t value my self-diagnosis, signs, and symptoms, due to sudden overexposure to toxic chemicals and a tendency toward perfectionism that often often contributed to my stress response. It’s important to realize that once the adrenals get fatigue, the thyroid starts to work overtime, which can lead to hypothyroidism or other thyroid disorders. Like many, I have been fundamentally changed by that illness in many positive ways, and it has definitely changed the way I practice psychotherapy. Thanks for this great learning series!