Can a traumatic experience cause an adrenal crisis?

Yes Connie ... that's what Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is. The experience causes enough prolonged stress that your adrenal glands can't pump out enough stress fighting hormones, which then affects your brain neurochemistry. The adrenals then need prolonged rest, nutrition and relief from the stress to recover. Antidepressants buy time for the adrenals to recover by normalizing brain chemistry, without the help of normal hormonal output. Cognitive Behavior Therapy trains the sufferer how to remove the stress by mental therapy methods. Chip