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Do psychological factors cause dysmenorrhea ( painful menstruation for women) ?


Do psychological factors cause dysmenorrhea ( painful menstruation for women) ?

Absolutely. I have seen many women who have inner issues about their sexuality, fertility, sexual abuse history, guilt, insecurity etc. whose dysmenorrhea resolves after dealing with their issues. Usually it is not conciously recognized, but anything in our psyche will affect our bodies, especially if we have hatred or saddness that centers around our sexual/reproductive organs. For example a woman whose birth I attended had horrible periods with no explanation for years before her pregnancy. While she was pregnant it came up that she had been sexually abused as a child, then was permiscuous as a tennager, had an abortion etc. She was able to heal these traumas after her beautiful birth experience and when her periods resumed, they were light, normal, and without pain. This is just one example but it demonstates the mind-body connection.

No.

No. I think it's more the other way round.
If you have pains, it could get you in a bad mood and edgy.
But they say that menstruation has a psychological AND physiological effect, each independent of the other.
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I could imagine that being stressed and/or focusing on the pain, perhaps having a negative attitude about menstration and expecting the pain, could make it feel worse, but there are physical reasons for dysmenorrhea. It's certainly not entirely pyschological.

no

No, but things like endometriosis and PCOS DO cause it.
Your doctor can put you on a BCP to control some of that.

Yes they do. All women go through a phase at this time where she will draw inward and be less service to others and she has to do more to take care of herself.Stress does no good service for a girl on her period.
Abuse can be very hard at this time, and the memory of it is not comforting. I've been told that if you have a family member that had a bad time of it, there is a greater likelyhood that you will too. But, of course, that's not the only factor and lots of things can combine to create problems. Health and diet are important, but too much exercise can create problems too. And of course, the biggest problem is that if you don't eat enough to weigh enough to ovulate, you just won't do it.

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