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.