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Does stress really stop your period from coming?

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Dr. Pamela Pappas answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

Dysregulation: Mental stress can temporarily alter the functioning of your hypothalamus -- the part of your brain that, amongst many other things, controls the hormones that regulate your menstrual cycle. Excessive exercise and low body weight (as in anorexia nervosa) can cause this also.

Answered 12/10/2013

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