Depression and Adrenal Fatigue Symptoms

One of the most frequent problems that adrenal fatigue sufferers face is how do you deal with the need or the potential need for anti-depressants if it's given to you by your medical doctor. In this video, we're going to go through what really happens to people who complain to their doctor about fatigue.


Now most people with adrenal fatigue, they already have a low energy state and low vitality to begin with. If you try to stimulate the body to give more energy, and it works in some people and that's fine, but long term a lot of people will get into more frustration because these medications simply don't address the root problem. As a result, the body continues to slow down, and sleep becomes a problem, appetite becomes problematic, the GI disturbances becomes exaggerated, etc., etc., and brain fog can get worse.

Now if you complain enough to your doctors, the doctor will have no choice but to do something and often times sleeping pills as well as anti-depressants are given. Now, many people come to us faced with this dilemma. Should you take the anti-depressants or not? Of course you should always listen to your doctor because indeed if there are strong components of depression within your adrenal fatigue, you have to resolve that issue. The problem becomes even more interesting in that many of these people that embark on an anti-depressant will actually not get better. In other words, even with anti-depressants on board, they don't feel significantly improved in terms of energy as well as fatigue.

Now, the sleep may be improved because anti-depressants has a tendency to help people to be more slow and then help with the sleep. But the depression itself tends to stay. The question is why? Now we always have to ask why. Now we always have to ask why because if we don't ask, then the tendency is just to say well, the anti-depressant dose is not strong enough, and let's get more. And often times this is true. Medical doctors in their best intentions will give more anti-depressant because the symptomatology refuses to go away.

Now in the case of adrenal fatigue, when the body is slowing down, the fatigue and the feeling anti-social, and the feeling of not having energy to be in an active mode, insomnia, are all also part of the clinical picture. So there's tremendous overlap, so for a clinician that is not astutely aware of adrenal fatigue, then the body is basically telling the clinician, given the symptoms, to basically prescribe anti-depressants.

Now, if a person is truly depressed because of neurotransmitter issues as well as cognitive impairment, then anti-depressants will do a great job and it's very good to use. However if there's a strong adrenal component, many will find that this doesn't really help that much and in fact many will feel worse.

Now, the problem is compounded if after a while the anti-depressant stops working or it works for a little while and get worse and you cannot get off because once you get off you can get rebound especially if it's too fast. So there's a lot of issues that are associated with these drugs that if it's properly used can be beneficial but in the case of anti-depressant used during adrenal fatigue and not helping.


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[SunnyBunney]

I resisted taking antidepressants for 4 years. I tried to heal
Myself of adrenal fatigue. I’m not in as much pain as I was from the hormone problems, but I have decided to go the antidepressant route, I hope it works bc I haven’t been able to work in 4 years and at this point I’d just like to get a job

[Blessednesting]

Okay what should I do? This is me, I believe I’m suffering from AF and my doctor believes it’s just depression.

[ddvantandar-kwkl]

The problem is not depression the problem is things are not going well as expected so kind of stress and yes some digesation problem

[AdnanKhan-kgek]

What exactly is adrenal fatigue and which blood tests can help diagnose the condition? Can anyone explain pls ?

[atrynaatryna]

What should i do if i have these problems? Is there solution for adrenal fatigue?

[manusharma]

My mom was suffering from depression . She is taking stress support from planet Ayurveda and it helped her to manage stress levels