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Tuesday, 22 December 2009 11:14

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"Your labs are normal so you must be depressed." Mary told me of what her doctor had said.

Mary was hopeless. She was told that she was depressed and needed to take an anti-depressant.

I want to share Mary's story with you.

Energetic, most likely to succeed, eager and always friendly and personable: Those are the words used to describe Mary at her college graduation just a few years back. What happened?

She said that she had always been a great mother with plenty of energy, motivated, great housekeeper, and SuperMom and SuperWife. After the birth of her second child and a big promotion for her husband, she became progressively more and more exhausted. She thought she had the flu initially. She even had a slight fever but her energy never returned. In fact, it continued to get worse. She did not even care about the house and could barely get up in the morning to get the kids to school. She complained of feeling like she was 'in a fog' and had to have pots of coffee and tons of coke to stay awake.

She didn't feel alive until afternoon. Her house, her family, and her writing career were all suffering. She always had to have a nap in the morning after the kids left and again before they got home. Her family often ate frozen food because she just couldn't get the energy to prepare meals. She was very tearful saying that she had the best life, the best kids, and the best husband. I want to share with you in Mary's own words her desperation. Mary said, "I should be ecstatic. I have it all. I am just so tired. My doctor said all my labs are normal and I must be depressed. Dr. Haendiges, I am not depressed and I don't really want to take an anti-depressant. Can you help me?"

Unfortunately, I have seen this too many times. Male or female, young or old, many of us suffer from an often unrecognized condition called Adrenal Fatigue or Adrenal Exhaustion. I was very skeptical of this condition for years. We are taught that if the lab is normal, then you are normal. Many of my patients have heard me say that traditional medicine is a reactive practice of treating the symptom and not the cause. Traditional medicine is what not why.

In the case of Mary, she felt worse when she went on the anti-depressant. She was exhausted but yet she had insomnia. She found at night that when she went to bed she just lay there. Have you ever felt that way? You feel that when you go to bed you will just collapse and fall sound to sleep. Yet, you lay there, eyes moving back and forth, exhausted but wide awake. Replaying the day's events and conversations.

There really is a solution to these problems. In fact, given the holiday season and all the stress that goes with it, I am going to speak about Adrenal Fatigue this week in the Daily Dose. If you know of someone that is tired all the time but appears to want help, please forward this to that person. Have them keep in touch with the Daily Dose. You don't always have to resort to prescription medications. You have choices.

Stay tuned this week for "the rest of the story"

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