A classic & dramatic example of the Adrenal Response Syndrome (linked with the Adrenal Fatigue Syndrome).
My Person had not worked for 2 months – due in part to Adrenal based Depletion. Then he started back to work – not just any work, but waiting tables. This profession, unlike many others, depends regularly upon the adrenal response system and its autonomic nervous system. The physical combined with a sense of immediacy and the inherent nature of Reality to clump- requires a sense of urgency to accomplish tasks in a timely fashion, i.e. taking orders, delivering drinks, refilling wine glasses, replacing silverware, & providing a bill for services rendered. Each of these tasks has time parameters associated with them. For instance management has requested that we greet our guests within 30 seconds of them being seated. Of course there are monetary rewards associated with prompt & attentive service, which drive the waiter to a rapidity of behavior unassociated with hairdressers, doctors, lawyers, teachers, engineers, office workers, or sales people, who derive little, if any, financial rewards from prompt or rapid service. And even if there is a reward, for instance commission from car or retail sales, the duties donÕt entail running around to satisfy the needs of multiple customers simultaneously – each requiring innumerable multiple short trips. Regardless of the comparisons w/other professions waitering requires a nightly dose of adrenaline to accomplish the tasks of the shift, except, of course, in dead restaurants – no business = no demands. So as a waiter, who hadnÕt worked for 2 months, the derivatives of my adrenal response had shrunk to zero – with no timely demands for 9 weeks – Heaven! (Not totally. There is sense of drama & excitement associated with a balanced and non-depleted adrenal response - not unlike the thrills of participating in sports.)
Anyway the logic and intuition-based prediction was that my Person would return immediately to where heÕd left off. Everything would be the same as when heÕd left. Nothing could have been further from the truth. After the first night back, which wasnÕt particularly busy, he was afflicted by the classic adrenal reaction associated with an exceptionally busy night, Buzzed due to the excess adrenaline coursing through my veins, he awoke in the middle of the night after going to bed late. Of course his Body was exhausted the following afternoon due to lack of sleep. The same sequence happened, to a lesser degree on the following evening, Saturday, and to an even lesser extent on Sunday, which was much busier than had been Friday – as he had worked by myself for the first time since returning.
In the successive weeks his Body followed the same pattern to a lesser and lesser degree. The first shift back after multiple days off was always the worst in terms of sleeplessness or wakefulness.
Further another pattern began to emerge which had a to do with a severe energy crash several days after my last shift.
Still running on adrenaline the day following a series of shifts – then a complete collapse on the 2nd day – manifesting as the need for multiple or exceptionally long naps <Aurgh!> (See August 26, 2008) – an hour or more in duration – to replenish cells, refresh my trace minerals & rejuvenate my soul. (The word ŌsoulÕ is used in the physical Biblical sense that the physical soul is the House of the Spirit. Of course the health of one is directly linked with the other.)
(Stopping for now: Pushing too hard.)