Adrenal Fatigue Blog

Stress Relief

I got to wondering today whether or not people who smoke pot have the same problems with stress that others do. I can't think of anyone I know who smokes pot who seems to be as stressed as the rest of the general public. People in their 40s or 50s probably grew up in an atmosphere of relaxed pot laws and there are lots of them who still smoke it. I did when I was younger but quit when I thought I had "grown up". Was that the beginning of a lifelong problem with handling stress? And could something like that help now? It's a thought. My problem is, though it would relax me, I still remember the overwhelming, all consuming feeling of the "munchies". That would probably overcome any benefit I might get from not having stress. While now I am too big due to the effects of bad adrenal problems, I could just relax my way into bigger and bigger sizes due to eating large jars of peanut butter and anything else I could find in the cuboard. It is sort of odd that it is never mentioned in all this literature I've been reading. It is acknowledged to help cancer patients, why not the over stressed of the world? It's a thought.

Think Back-How Long Has This Been Going On?

I was trying to think about when all of my adrenal problems might have started. I almost made myself sick, just realizing how long my body has been fighting a battle without any input or help from me. I have been going back to when I first got to Arizona, the stress of my life then was enormous. Once I got to really thinking about it though, I realized I had lots of stress way back in the mid-eighties. So, 25 years ago, my stress level started going up and up. My weight also started a slow climb. Dieting and exercise, even when I was young, really didn't touch it. Sometimes, if I was really committed, I'd lose a bunch of weight but it would roll right back on the minute I quit the diet. I've always exercised. When I was in Denver, I went to a gym and did high impact aerobics, front row, center, five days a week. While I was able to whittle myself down at that time, certain parts of me never trimmed up. For several years I did that and since I've been in Tucson, I've been doing Pilates at least twice a week and lots of walking, too. Diet and exercise don't work for this problem, at least formal, follow the book diets. Back to the "Belly Fat" subject. Adrenal problems manifest themselves right there, in the middle of your body. Why isn't this well known in America? How can mainstream medicine entirely ignore such a huge problem? I don't know if my present course of medicines, herbs, supplements and concentration on the subject will do anything, at least yet. One source has said that not all types of exercise work for this problem, that my Pilates may be stressing my adrenals more than they are helping me to lose weight. How is a person to figure all this out? I don't know if there is a cure or whether a person can take up the project and bring themselves back to health within what, a year, two? There are a lot of questions yet but I do believe I feel a little better. All of the realizations that I had today have made me feel like stagnation might be a good thing, mindless staring at the wall. Of course, I have no place in my life for that, no time to spare for a small nervous breakdown. So, it's onward and upward, I guess.