Anxiety, Stress and Hair Loss - What’s the Connection?
Posted by Sylvia on October 20th, 2008
Is your hair falling out? Does it alarm you?
Stress and anxiety have been proven to cause hair loss. The strain they put on your body can be significant. Your adrenalin goes into overdrive. You are constantly tense. Even your scalp tenses.
Some people lose their appetites when they are under stress, which puts added strain on your body. In its weakened condition, your body eventually shows signs that damage is occurring.
Getting rid of stress and curing your anxiety are the obvious solutions. But what if you are stressed and anxious because your hair is falling out? For some people, hair loss is to be expected because of their genes. It can reduce a person’s self-confidence which can trigger anxiety.
Fortunately, not all hair loss is permanent. In many cases, it can be treated. Sometimes, just understanding hair loss can help if you think you inherited the gene from your parents or grandparents.
It’s interesting to note that just because someone in your family was bald or had a receding hairline it doesn’t mean that your hair loss is incurable or inevitable. It’s quite possible that your family members weren’t aware that baldness is not a normal part of aging. They might have lost their hair for other, treatable reasons.
You certainly want to reduce stress and cure anxiety, especially if your body is becoming weak because of it. But if you want to stop hair loss and it is making you anxious, check into the various causes. There just might be a cure for you.