Alopecia anxiety
To think that alopecia is caused by stress and yet alopecia gives stress. I’ve not wanted to wash my hair for fear that I would come out of it entirely bald. I can’t tell you the feeling of washing your hair and having clumps come out in your hand, or shaking your head and seeing hair fly everywhere. Unnerving to say the least.
But this is a stress related disease and it’s too bad that more people don’t talk about it. At the girl’s gathering the other night, one woman had it during a divorce, another friend had it when she started college, another had it when she HATED her job (oh, I can relate) – but it’s amazing what your body does to you when you are not listening to it – read the patient statement in the rectangular box on this site.