Marcelle Pick breaks adrenal dysfunction into three types: the racehorse (wired and over-driven), the workhorse (pushing through on empty), and the flatliner (exhausted). Each needs different treatment. Calming strategies that help a racehorse can make a flatliner worse.
I want you to actually answer this. Are you running on adrenaline, running on fumes, or just running on empty? Me, I've done that before because the answer changes everything about how you fix it. In my book, I break adrenal dysfunction into 3 profiles because adrenal fatigue is too vague to actually act on. The racehorse is wired, driven, always on. Your stress response is in overdrive. Even when there's nothing left to respond to. The workhorse is the one pushing through on sheer will, functioning but running on reserves you don't actually have anymore. And the flatliner, that's the one who's been pushing so long there's little left to push with. Exhausted, flat, running on empty. These aren't just different vibes. They need genuinely different approaches. What helps a wired racehorse calm down can make an already depleted flatliner feel worse. That's exactly why I built the book around identifying your profile first before doing anything else.
