Stress and Anxiety Hair Loss!

With so much awareness and discussions around anxiety at the moment, how to spot it and how to deal with it let’s talk about a side affect of it.

Hair loss, it is never the only symptom of anxiety but it is a distressing one once it starts.

The trigger is stress, people who suffer anxiety put their bodies under huge amounts of stress sometimes causing hair loss, this can a lead to a vicious cycle.

You get stressed from a from a life event, losing a loved one, uncertainty in your career or a million other things, anxiety is a reaction to the stress and you can start to loose your hair, then you worry about losing your hair as well,

You get more stressed and more anxious and lose more hair.

You can literally worry your hair away!

In some severe cases it can lead to Trichotillomania
This is where the phrase pulling your hair out comes from, people will literally pull their own hair out, sometimes without realising. People will do this as a coping mechanism which gives them release from stress. They can also pull eyelashes and eyebrows out too!

Hair loss can also be caused by a number of other things and your GP advice is always recommended in all these cases not only in hair loss but anxiety and stress too.

For a solution to hair loss, try scalp micropigmentation.