I've Been Through 9/11, 2008, and the Pandemic. This Feels Different.
I've been doing this for 24 years.
I started my first day of clinic on September 11th, 2001. I made it through the end of the dot-com bust. The housing crash in 2008. I had two kids 13 months apart (that stress was personal, not global). The pandemic. Riots. All of it.
This week feels different.
I don't know how else to say it. It feels deeper. Spiritual. Subconscious. Almost like a universal subconscious shift that everyone's picking up on whether they realize it or not.
And I don't like it.
What's Different This Time
Previous crises had boundaries. Economic collapse. Health crisis. Political chaos. They were massive, but they were contained within specific domains.
This one feels like all of them at once, plus something underneath that nobody's talking about openly.
It's not just fear. It's the sense that the ground itself is unstable. That the rules we thought governed reality don't apply anymore. That the institutions we relied onā€”even if we didn't trust themā€”are either bre...
Why Everyone's Adrenals Are Getting Destroyed Right Now (And What To Do About It)
This may come as an absolute shock to you, but everyone is stressed as hell right now and they're getting their ass kicked.
I wrote most of this after teaching at ICAK's winter meeting in Orlando last weekend. What became clear in the days after: everyone, and I do mean everyone, is getting crushed by adrenal exhaustion right now.
Every person. Every appointment. Every conversation.
Anxiety. Stress. Fear. Sitting in the chest. Crushing.
Almost all of my patients this week said some version of "I don't know what's wrong with me. I'm just off." The anxiety is overwhelming. They can't sleep. They're waking up in the middle of the night. Can't focus. Stuck in doom scrolls. Actively avoiding their phone so they don't see the news, then consuming all of it anyway. Heart racing for no reason.
I'm experiencing every single one of these symptoms too.
Here's what's actually happening: your adrenals are trying to keep up with the world right now, and they're losing.
What Anxiety Actually I...
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