Stress one of the causes for hair loss that is different for both the genders. Men usually go bald in their mid life crisis and go out and have an affair whereas females tend to shut themselves up and withdraw.
Androgenic alopecia is a form standard male and female pattern baldness. Traction alopecia is caused by pressure to the hair, it could be due to tieing up hair too tightly or held tightly. There are a few alopecia that are linked to stress, such as emotional stress and alopecia areata, which is a type of hair loss that occurs in a circular pattern.
Three main types of stress-related hair loss:
Androgenic alopecia is a form standard male and female pattern baldness. Traction alopecia is caused by pressure to the hair, it could be due to tieing up hair too tightly or held tightly. There are a few alopecia that are linked to stress, such as emotional stress and alopecia areata, which is a type of hair loss that occurs in a circular pattern.
Three main types of stress-related hair loss:
- Telogen effluvium: The hair follicles go into a resting phase, hair stops growing. After a few months, the hair may start to fall out suddenly. This is possibly the most common cause of hairloss due to stress.
- Alopecia areata: Hair loss due to alopecia areata manifests as hair follicles being effected by immune system and causes hair to fall out in large bundles. There can be several factors causing hair loss due to alopecia areata and stress is one of them.
- Trichotillomania: This condition involves a person compulsively pulling out their own hair, whether it is from their head, eyebrows or other areas of the body. Hair loss due to trichotillomania develops due to stress, anxiety, depression, loneliness or boredom.
- If you are a vegetarian, make sure you get enough protein.
- You cannot do everything today, so keep some for tommorow.
- Pen down all good and bad things and make an effort to tackle the bad.
- Do not stress weather hair will stay fine and thin as re-growth will take time
- Lastly, if you are suffering from hair loss that is turning from a circle into something bigger than make an appointment with a trichologist and choose the right hair loss treatment.