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can grow on the inside as well as in the body. I invest in life, and the structure of my thoughts includes respect for myself.",[263,264],"Growth hormone excess","Pituitary gigantism","glands",{"type":267,"value":268,"toc":353},"minimark",[269,274,278,295,299,302,305,309,312],[270,271,273],"h2",{"id":272},"what-acromegaly-is","What acromegaly is",[275,276,277],"p",{},"Acromegaly is an exaggerated growth of the bones of the extremities and of the face. Growth hormone is secreted in a much greater quantity than normal, almost always because of a benign tumour of the pituitary, the gland that conducts the others. Hands, feet and brow enlarge. The jaw changes. Joints ache. The heart, the sugar and the breathing can all be affected, and the tumour can press on the optic nerves. Treatment is surgery, medicine, or radiotherapy, aimed at the tumour and at the hormone. It is an endocrine disease. It is not the body kindly deciding to make you larger so that you will be respected.",[275,279,280,281,286,287,290,291,294],{},"The emotional reading below asks where you felt too small. That question can matter in a life. It is not the mechanism of the tumour. ",[282,283,285],"a",{"href":284},"\u002Fglands\u002Faddisons-disease","Addison's disease"," is the adrenal gland failing, a different problem. The ",[282,288,289],{"href":158},"pituitary"," is described with the other glands. The ",[282,292,293],{"href":11},"head"," is where this gland sits.",[270,296,298],{"id":297},"the-emotional-meaning-of-acromegaly","The emotional meaning of acromegaly",[275,300,301],{},"If you are in this situation, you ask which situation made you feel too small to reach or realise a project. Where did you feel too small, too slight and too weak to take your place and be respected? The reading hears the body's answer as having grown beyond measure, so that taking your place would be easier, and it thanks the body. You wanted to impress. You wanted to show you were the strongest. You may have felt abandoned by one of your parents, and the anguish of being hurt again makes you distant from the people around you. Although you can have the impression that your body takes up a great deal of space, you try by every means to stay far from the life around you.",[275,303,304],{},"You perceive the world as cold, and you need a lifebuoy. Which person, or which institution, could take charge of you and let you stop worrying about the future? You doubt your power, and you search for the truth. You compensate by becoming hooked on a substance, on money, on food, or on something else that fills the doubt.",[270,306,308],{"id":307},"a-gentler-way-to-hold-it","A gentler way to hold it",[275,310,311],{},"You review the structures you gave yourself and the ones society wanted to impose. Your physical growth being great, it is time to grow as much on the emotional and personal level. You trust life, and you decide to invest in it. The new structure of your thoughts now includes respect for yourself, for your emotions, and for your differences. Treatment of the tumour continues alongside that review. One does not cancel the other.",[313,314,315,323,329,335,341,347],"ul",{},[316,317,318,322],"li",{},[319,320,321],"strong",{},"See an endocrinologist if features are changing."," Vision, headache and a changing bite are reasons to go sooner.",[316,324,325,328],{},[319,326,327],{},"Keep the treatment of the hormone."," Inward growth does not shrink a pituitary tumour.",[316,330,331,334],{},[319,332,333],{},"Ask where you felt too small to be respected."," That is the question. It is not a cause.",[316,336,337,340],{},[319,338,339],{},"Notice the wish to impress."," Distance, after an abandonment, is the other half.",[316,342,343,346],{},[319,344,345],{},"Name the lifebuoy."," A person, an institution, a substance, money or food.",[316,348,349,352],{},[319,350,351],{},"Review one imposed structure."," Respect for your own differences is the structure this reading wants in its place.",{"title":354,"searchDepth":18,"depth":18,"links":355},"",[356,357,358],{"id":272,"depth":18,"text":273},{"id":297,"depth":18,"text":298},{"id":307,"depth":18,"text":308},"2026-10-04","The emotional and spiritual meaning of acromegaly: a pituitary excess of growth hormone, read alongside having felt too small to take your place.","md",{},true,"\u002Fconditions\u002Fglands\u002Facromegaly",[366,367,368,369,370,372],"In which situation did I feel too small to reach a project or to be respected?","Where did I want to impress, and to show I was the strongest?","Did I feel abandoned by a parent, so that closeness now feels like a risk of being hurt again?","Whom, or which institution, am I hoping will take charge of my future so I can stop worrying?",{"What am I using to compensate for a power I doubt":371},"a substance, money, food, or something else?","Which structure, mine or one imposed on me, is ready to be reviewed?",[284,11],[375,376],"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FAcromegaly","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.wikidata.org\u002Fwiki\u002FQ189580",{"title":260,"description":360},[379],{"author":380,"work":381,"entries":382,"pages":384},"Jacques Martel","Le Grand Dictionnaire des Malaises et des Maladies",[383],"Os — Acromégalie","312","conditions\u002Fglands\u002Facromegaly","Acromegaly is too much growth hormone, usually from a pituitary tumour, enlarging the hands, feet and face. The emotional reading asks where you felt too small to take your place. The tumour itself belongs to an endocrinologist.","If this reading resonates with you, asking where you felt too small to be respected can be a good next step, alongside the endocrine care that treats the hormone excess.",[389,390,391,392,393],"Feeling too small","Taking your place","Abandonment","Distance","Compensation",[395,396,397,398,399,400],"Hands, feet or facial features that have enlarged, a changed bite, widening gaps between the teeth, or rings and shoes that no longer fit. Acromegaly is caused by excess growth hormone, usually from a pituitary tumour. It needs an endocrinologist.","Headaches, sweating, joint pain, snoring, or a loss of vision at the edges. A tumour can press on the nerves to the eyes. Report this promptly.","You already have a diagnosis. Surgery, medicine or radiotherapy are what lower the hormone. Do not stop them because you have decided to \"grow inwardly\".","High blood pressure, diabetes or heart strain often travel with the disease and need their own care.","A child growing far outside the expected range needs a paediatric endocrinologist. That picture is gigantism, and it is urgent in a different way.","Feeling small in life does not create a pituitary tumour, and gratitude toward the body does not shrink one.","-LSvp7wVwrvx3dQwakKG6d68jr8ejJPoJ52RLcFeY_I",{"id":403,"title":153,"body":404,"comingSoon":10,"dateModified":359,"datePublished":359,"description":154,"extension":361,"groups":558,"icon":156,"meta":570,"navigation":363,"order":157,"path":155,"reflectionQuestions":571,"seo":578,"sources":579,"stem":586,"themes":587,"whenToSeeADoctor":593,"__hash__":600},"areas\u002Fareas\u002Fglands.md",{"type":267,"value":405,"toc":552},[406,413,416,422,426,437,440,447,451,454,461,464,468,475,500,503,507,514],[275,407,408,409,412],{},"The pituitary, the pineal and the adrenal glands are small organs with large hormonal jobs. The pituitary, under the brain, signals other glands, including the ",[282,410,411],{"href":151},"thyroid",". The pineal, deep in the brain, takes part in the rhythm of night and day. The adrenals, above the kidneys, make cortisol and adrenaline and help the body answer stress. Disorders of these glands are diagnosed with blood tests, scans and a specialist. They are not a personality type.",[275,414,415],{},"In the emotional reading, the pituitary is the conductor, the pineal is the inner voice, and the adrenals are the answer to danger.",[417,418,419],"note",{},[275,420,421],{},"This page offers a symbolic and emotional perspective. It is meant to complement medical care, never to replace it. A sudden severe headache, collapsing blood pressure, or extreme thirst needs a doctor. Do not change hormone treatment because of a symbolic reading.",[270,423,425],{"id":424},"the-pituitary","The pituitary",[275,427,428,429,432,433,436],{},"The pituitary is lodged between the eyebrows' line, behind the root of the nose, under the brain, and it depends entirely on the brain. The source relates it to the face, the ",[282,430,431],{"href":19},"eyes and ears",", the nose, and the central ",[282,434,435],{"href":11},"nervous system",". It secretes the signals that act on the other endocrine glands. It is the master gland, the conductor. It receives messages from the brain and redistributes them. It also governs the periodicity of sleep.",[275,438,439],{},"It searches constantly for balance. It treats each new experience against everything stored across a life. Great inner transformations are possible, the source says, as long as you stay open instead of resisting change from fear of the unknown. Working well, it helps the balance of the rational side and the intuitive side.",[275,441,442,443,446],{},"Out of harmony, this centre is a disorder in your thoughts. You stay at the level of the intellect, of cold reason, of egocentrism, and you prevent yourself from having a wider view. You become arrogant and contemptuous, which creates further problems. The pituitary controls signals to the thyroid, the adrenals and the gonads. The gonads are the testicles and the ovaries, so the ",[282,444,445],{"href":67},"reproductive system"," is part of the same orchestra.",[270,448,450],{"id":449},"the-pineal","The pineal",[275,452,453],{},"The pineal is called the principal mirror of the self, gathering the energies of the other centres. It is in relation with the inner voice and with spiritual search. It handles everything that belongs to an existential question. It collects what you perceive of the earth and puts it in contact with your inner experience, so that you can have a global vision of your existence.",[275,455,456,457,460],{},"Out of harmony, it means a failure to integrate yourself, a self-pity that stops you realising what you are here for. You feel confronted, in duality with yourself. You do yourself violence. You lose the capacity to marvel, and you struggle to carry out your mission. You do not know which structures to base a life on, so you reject your milieu, and sometimes life itself. You fear being wrong and being judged, especially in the choice of a career. You live a spirituality cut off from the physical body and the earth. You become ",[282,458,459],{"href":178},"anguished",", and you start to see the negative everywhere. You set yourself limits and you live in an artificial, impersonal way.",[275,462,463],{},"In harmony, the same gland is said to bring calm, serenity and an open mind. The ego gives way to a wider consciousness. Duality drops because you are in the present moment, neither in the future nor in the past.",[270,465,467],{"id":466},"the-adrenals","The adrenals",[275,469,470,471,474],{},"The first job of the adrenals, in the book's account, is to produce the hormone of stress, adrenaline, together with cortisol and cortisone. They regularise the pulse and the blood pressure, which is why a racing heart in fear belongs with the ",[282,472,473],{"href":34},"heart and circulation",". They let the body feel dangerous situations: fear, confrontation, survival. They are tied to the solid parts of the body and to the contact with the earth, the material world, fundamental needs, and the acceptance of the bodily part of your personality.",[275,476,477,478,481,482,485,486,489,490,481,492,495,496,499],{},"When this centre is out of harmony, you worry without cease about your material goods. You distrust other people. You are never satisfied. When you live in ",[282,479,480],{"href":211},"fear",", ",[282,483,484],{"href":244},"stress"," or ",[282,487,488],{"href":256},"worry",", real or imagined, the behaviour becomes aggressive, angry and impatient, especially if the adrenals are working in excess. ",[282,491,168],{"href":169},[282,493,494],{"href":175},"anger"," and ",[282,497,498],{"href":217},"impatience"," are the feelings named there. When the adrenals are in deficit, you are easily discouraged. You put things off. You do not want to face your problems, and you prefer flight. You lack the courage and the will to face life.",[275,501,502],{},"The body answers a stress it feels as threatening, whether or not the situation fully manifests. You can tie the danger to a fear of losing time, money, a reward or a partner because you took a \"bad decision\". Coordination goes. The source is describing an alarm system that does not know how to stand down. It is not a claim that worry creates an adrenal disease.",[270,504,506],{"id":505},"caring-for-these-glands-from-the-inside","Caring for these glands from the inside",[275,508,509,510],{},"Tumours, autoimmune disease and long courses of steroid medicine change these glands for biological reasons. The emotional perspective adds a question: ",[511,512,513],"em",{},"where am I closed to change, cut off from my own questions, or still answering a danger that has passed?",[313,515,516,522,528,534,540,546],{},[316,517,518,521],{},[319,519,520],{},"Stay open to one change."," Resistance from fear of the unknown is the pituitary's disharmony.",[316,523,524,527],{},[319,525,526],{},"Come down from cold reason."," A wider view is what the conductor is said to lose when the ego takes the podium.",[316,529,530,533],{},[319,531,532],{},"Ask the existential question without self-pity."," That is the pineal's theme.",[316,535,536,539],{},[319,537,538],{},"Notice attack and flight."," Excess is anger and impatience. Deficit is postponement. Both are the adrenal picture.",[316,541,542,545],{},[319,543,544],{},"Name the material fear."," Time, money and loss are the dangers the entry lists.",[316,547,548,551],{},[319,549,550],{},"Leave the dose with the specialist."," These glands are measured in blood, not in a symbol alone.",{"title":354,"searchDepth":18,"depth":18,"links":553},[554,555,556,557],{"id":424,"depth":18,"text":425},{"id":449,"depth":18,"text":450},{"id":466,"depth":18,"text":467},{"id":505,"depth":18,"text":506},[559,562,566],{"id":289,"title":560,"description":561},"Pituitary","The pituitary as the conductor of the other hormone glands, searching for balance between reason and intuition.",{"id":563,"title":564,"description":565},"pineal","Pineal","The pineal as the inner voice and the questions you ask about why you are here.",{"id":567,"title":568,"description":569},"adrenals","Adrenals","The adrenals as the answer to danger, fear and stress, and as the contact with the material ground of a life.",{},[572,573,574,575,576,577],"Where am I resisting a change because the unknown frightens me?","Am I living only in cold reason, and cutting myself off from a wider view?","What existential question am I refusing, so that I pity myself instead?","Which danger, real or imagined, has my body still not stood down from?","When I am afraid, do I attack, or do I postpone and flee?","What material fear, of money or loss or time, is running the day?",{"title":153,"description":154},[580],{"author":380,"work":381,"entries":581,"pages":585},[582,583,584],"Glande pituitaire ou hypophyse","Glande pinéale ou corps pinéal ou épiphyse","Glandes surrénales","201–204","areas\u002Fglands",[588,589,590,591,210,592],"Balance","Inner vision","Change","Danger","The material world",[594,595,596,597,598,599],"A sudden severe headache with vomiting or visual change. Seek urgent care.","Unexplained weight change, a changing face or hands, or purple stretch marks with muscle weakness.","Episodes of a racing heart, sweating and a sense of doom that come in attacks.","Extreme thirst and large volumes of urine.","Fainting, or blood pressure that is very high or that collapses when you stand.","A known hormone condition whose symptoms are changing. Do not alter medicine without the clinician who prescribed it.","UYov-JS9XUXykDY4JjSNI69vJqSXa4ybwgaa19ZXeg0",[602],{"id":603,"title":285,"affirmation":604,"aka":605,"area":265,"body":608,"dateModified":359,"datePublished":359,"description":695,"extension":361,"group":567,"meta":696,"navigation":363,"path":697,"reflectionQuestions":698,"related":705,"sameAs":706,"seo":709,"sources":710,"stem":715,"summary":716,"supportIntro":717,"themes":718,"whenToSeeADoctor":724,"__hash__":731},"conditions\u002Fconditions\u002Fglands\u002Faddisons-disease.md","I take my place and I go forward. I can pursue an aim that is mine without waiting for the consent of everyone around me.",[606,607],"Primary adrenal insufficiency","Adrenal insufficiency",{"type":267,"value":609,"toc":690},[610,614,617,627,631,634,644,647,649,652],[270,611,613],{"id":612},"what-addisons-disease-is","What Addison's disease is",[275,615,616],{},"Addison's disease is a lack of cortisol from the adrenal glands, which sit above the kidneys. Thomas Addison, an English physician, described the slow insufficiency in 1855. The glands also make the hormones that, when life is in danger, let the body muster an extreme effort. When cortisol fails, tiredness becomes profound, blood pressure falls, salt is lost, the skin can darken, and a vomiting illness can tip into shock. Treatment replaces the missing hormones, every day, for life, with extra doses when the body is under stress. That replacement is what keeps you alive. Nothing in an emotional reading stands in for it.",[275,618,619,620,622,623,626],{},"The questions below belong to disappointment, submission and a word that was never said. They do not explain why the glands failed. The ",[282,621,567],{"href":158}," are described on the glands page. ",[282,624,260],{"href":625},"\u002Fglands\u002Facromegaly"," is a different gland, the pituitary, with a different excess.",[270,628,630],{"id":629},"the-emotional-meaning-of-addisons-disease","The emotional meaning of Addison's disease",[275,632,633],{},"This is read as a form of disappointment in yourself. It is an extreme state of emotional and spiritual under-nourishment. Having the illness is placed beside having lived a great deal of submission in childhood, in relation to one parent or the other. You may have felt attacked psychologically, lived a trauma or an intense irritation in which you could feel your life was in danger. You have the impression that someone \"wants your skin\" and that you should escape at full speed. That state brought a great insecurity about the future, and a deep doubt about your capacities.",[275,635,636,637,639,640,643],{},"The illness is distinguished, in this reading, by an extremely defeatist attitude, an absence of aim or of interest for yourself or for what surrounds you. You had to abdicate, to throw in the towel, without saying a word, and it broke your heart. You can compensate for your disappointments by a dependence on some substance, or on a person. You consider yourself an anguished victim. You have the impression your whole life is made of torture. You live a great deal of ",[282,638,494],{"href":175}," against yourself. You cannot receive love from others. You live a great deal of ",[282,641,642],{"href":181},"anxiety"," and of antipathy.",[275,645,646],{},"If any of this describes a present danger, a substance dependence, or a childhood in which you were not safe, the right move is help from a person, not a harder effort to cope alone.",[270,648,308],{"id":307},[275,650,651],{},"You take your place. You go forward. You manifest the energy needed to elaborate certain personal aims, without waiting for the approval and the consent of the people around you, whatever the importance of the aim. You find a method that helps you connect more with an inner self. You can thus find a mastery of your life again. The tablet remains the mastery of the cortisol. The aim is the mastery of the direction.",[313,653,654,660,666,672,678,684],{},[316,655,656,659],{},[319,657,658],{},"Never miss the replacement, and know your sick-day rules."," An adrenal crisis kills. A reading does not prevent it.",[316,661,662,665],{},[319,663,664],{},"Ask where you submitted until you had no word left."," A parent is the figure given. The defeat was silent.",[316,667,668,671],{},[319,669,670],{},"Name the towel you threw in."," A broken heart is the cost this reading names.",[316,673,674,677],{},[319,675,676],{},"Look at what the disappointment is compensated with."," A substance or a person. If it is harming you, get help.",[316,679,680,683],{},[319,681,682],{},"Notice anger at yourself that blocks love coming in."," Anxiety and antipathy sit in the same place.",[316,685,686,689],{},[319,687,688],{},"Pick one aim that does not need the room's permission."," Small is allowed. Waiting for consent is the old pattern.",{"title":354,"searchDepth":18,"depth":18,"links":691},[692,693,694],{"id":612,"depth":18,"text":613},{"id":629,"depth":18,"text":630},{"id":307,"depth":18,"text":308},"The emotional and spiritual meaning of Addison's disease: a lack of cortisol that needs replacement for life, read alongside extreme disappointment, submission and a defeat you never spoke.",{},"\u002Fconditions\u002Fglands\u002Faddisons-disease",[699,700,701,702,703,704],"Where in childhood did I submit, to a parent or to someone in that place, until I disappeared?","When did I feel my life was in danger, psychologically or otherwise, and that I should run?","Where did I throw in the towel without saying a word?","What disappointment am I compensating with a substance, or with dependence on a person?","Where is anger at myself keeping me from receiving love?","Which personal aim could I move toward without waiting for permission?",[625],[707,708],"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FAddison%27s_disease","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.wikidata.org\u002Fwiki\u002FQ8282",{"title":285,"description":695},[711],{"author":380,"work":381,"entries":712,"pages":714},[713],"Addison (maladie d')","27–28","conditions\u002Fglands\u002Faddisons-disease","Addison's disease is a failure of the adrenal glands to make enough cortisol, and it is treated by replacing that hormone. The emotional reading speaks of extreme disappointment, a childhood of submission, and a defeat accepted without a word.","If this reading resonates with you, naming the defeat you never spoke can be a good next step. The hormone replacement stays exactly as prescribed, including the emergency dose.",[719,720,721,722,723],"Disappointment","Submission","Insecurity","Defeat","Anger at yourself",[725,726,727,728,729,730],"Deep tiredness, weight loss, dizziness on standing, salt craving, darkened skin, or nausea. Adrenal insufficiency is diagnosed by blood tests and is treated by replacing cortisol. Missing doses can be fatal.","Vomiting, severe weakness, confusion, or collapse, especially in someone who already has Addison's. This is an adrenal crisis. Use the emergency injection if you have one, and call emergency services.","You are ill with a fever, or you are about to have surgery or a dental extraction. Sick-day rules increase the steroid dose. Follow the plan you were given.","Do not stop hydrocortisone, fludrocortisone or any replacement because you feel you have \"taken your place\".","Carry a steroid card or medical alert. People who treat you need to know.","Emotional disappointment does not cause adrenal failure, and resolve does not replace the hormone.","NbpU2IQuy8kccrdPVAiy_BVEtgkwbqTmFeZVJyPR340",[],1791107671544]