Stress and Hair loss

There are many symptoms of panic that seem to become self-accomplish. A common example is hair loss. It often seems that those that live in constant fear of losing their hair may actually contribute to their own hair loss, by giving themselves so much stress and anxiety that their hair may actually fall out.

Anxiety and hair loss have a complex relationship. Anxiety, in some cases, cause hair loss to occur, and in other cases, it can make hair loss itself more difficult to control.

Causes of Anxiety Hair Loss

Hair loss is never the only symptom of anxiety, and it is very rare for hair loss to occur if your anxiety isn’t severe. The key issue between anxiety and hair loss is stress. Anxiety is, in many ways, long-term and persistent stress. While technically these are two separate conditions and long-term stress on its own can lead to many of the alike symptoms, the reality is that anyone negotiating with anxiety is putting themselves under severe mental and physical stress all the time.

Stress can cause many conditions that result in hair loss. These include:

• Alopecia Areata – Sudden loss of large clumps of hair in areas around your scalp.

• Telogen Effluvium – This is a condition where more hairs than normal prepare to fall out.

• Trichotillomania – This is a habitual condition caused by stress and anxiety where the person pulls out hairs without realizing it.

It’s highly likely that those with moderate hair loss caused by tension are suffering from either telogen effluvium, or simply stress weakened hair. But the other two are also a concern and affect a smaller percentage of the anxiety rate.

Telogen effluvium occurs when your body tells more hairs to stop growing than general. Hairs have a grown cycle of two years before stopping and falling out two months later. If your body “tells” more hairs than normal to stop growing, two months later more hairs will fall out.

All of these maybe are caused by tensions and worries.