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Can you get adrenal insufficiency from constant anxiety/stress?

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Dr. Linda Callaghan answered

Specializes in Addiction Medicine

Yes.: If you're chronically stressed and untreated, it could cause adrenal insufficiency over a long period of time. Normally, when we feel threatened , we respond with the fight or flight phenomena . When the threat is over, our bodies go back to normal. However, if we feel constantly threatened , we do not have a chance to recover , and adrenaline is constantly high causing adrenal insufficiency .

Answered 6/20/2014

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