Stress & Adrenal Fatigue

The last two weeks we have been discussing PTSD and it's use in Legal Advocacy in court regarding divorce, seperation, rehabilitative alimony and child custody. You can read the last two weeks of newsletters to see how using a PTSD ccommodations Report in Court can help you.

And you can also read up on the differences between PTSD and mental illness if you are concerned with getting labeled 'mentally ill' (PTSD is a stress reaction not a mental illness.)

In many other newsletters I have written extensively about PTSD and recovery. Much of learning to heal from or live with PTSD has to do with learning to 'Live a Gentle Life' that is less stressful. You can read about PTSD and the Gentle Life in previous newsletters/blog spots by CLICKING HERE.

However, PTSD as a stress disorder is an indicator of extreme stress. If you have it, that means you have suffered an emotional, physical, spiritual, sexual, and/or psychological trauma that was severe enough or long enough in duration to significantly impact you. There is a group of Stress Disorders and having any of them mean two things: 1. You were significantly stressed or traumatized 2. The stress and/or trauma has effected your functioning level.

PTSD can be short term and resolved with treatment within a few months or it can be chronic and life long, often reactivated by MORE stress or MORE trauma. In my case, I have chronic PTSD that is reactivated when I am worn down, too stressed, not living a gentle life, or other life events that are difficult (my mothers death) and reactivate it.

With PTSD, whether it's short or long term, you are likely to have a reduced level of productivity. Your concentration can be impaired, sleep is disrupted, you are hyper vigiliant and have an exaggerated startle reflex, you have anxiety and a mixture of depression, intrusive thoughts, emotional numbing, flashbacks and panic. None of this lends itself to being able to work well, consistently, or productively. Even if you are unemployed, the quality of your daily life is disrupted and your life productivity in your day to day living is reduced. This is why people often need treatment for PTSD. That could be short or long term treatment, individual weekly counseling, group counseling, inpatient treatment, or any combination of those.

PTSD as a stress disorder has it's long term outcomes in medical conditions as do many other stress disorders. Unresolved stress and trauma (whether it's PTSD or every day stress) can and most often does end up in medical disorders. Part of seeking rehabilitative alimony in court with a PTSD diagnosis is because of the loss of productivity AND because of the long term effects on your health. 25 years after the murder of my father I am continuing to see the medical outcome of chronic PTSD in my health.

Often in court, women do not know to have their attorneys argue for rehab alimony or medical coverage for treatment FOR THE FUTURE. So many don't realize how their health could be impacted now and years from now. Stress and PTSD have many long term medical possibilities, including:

• Auto Immune Disorders: Fibromyalga, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Epstein Bar Syndrome, Lupus, M.S.
• Various forms of arthritis
• Gastric problems
• Migraines and TMJ
• Female problems (Gynecological & Endocrinological)
• Ongoing anxiety and depression
• Thyroid and Adrenal Fatigue
• Sleep disorders
• Diabetes or Insulin Resistance
  
• And most commonly, a combination of the above
  

Settling your divorce or court case with the pathological and NOT considering the future medical outcome of the stress he produced in your BODY is unwise. Because we do know that many of these stress disorders and/or PTSD will continue on long after he is gone and in the end, effect a person's health in
some way. That's because at the heart of the medical conditions that develop is adrenal fatigue.

Adrenal Fatigue is the culprit must likely associated with medical disorders that go on to develop. Treating and managing adrenal fatigue could actually prevent many of the disorders that will later develop because of untreated and unmanaged adrenal fatigue.

Click Here for a link about it and the book we took the Adrenal Fatigue questionnaire from.

Chronic stress wears out the adrenal glands that support other healthy functioning in your body. When stress, poor diet, lack of sleep and unresolved problems wear out the gland, your body is in a down ward spiral and cannot heal from stress or PTSD. To find out if you have adrenal fatigue, we are attaching a link to the quiz. If you do have adrenal fatigue, this is a stepping stone to other medical conditions if not treated immediately. More importantly, your body has started down that path. If you are in a court case, please advise your attorney of the disorder as it may be able to be argued regarding stress disorders and your need for continued medical coverage and care.

TAKE THE "DO I HAVE ADRENAL FATIGUE" QUIZ - CLICK HERE

ADDITIONAL ARTICLE ABOUT ADRENAL FATIGUE - CLICK HERE