Re: Hair loss and anxiety
Originally Posted by
Phoenixess
Hi all I have started to loose my hair in mighty handfuls. I feel a bit of a cheat as I have ever so thick long blond hair it looks similar to a normal thickness now except my ponytail is now half the thickness than it was and it started 48 hours hours ago. It’s defiantly set my anxiety off no end I’m having physical panic symptoms I’m not having catastrophic thoughts I mean if I go bald I go bald dah! Can’t do anything about it and I’m sure it will grow back. But whilst I wait for it to either all fall out or for it to stop falling I just wondered if anyone else had this alongside anxiety and stress before?
I'm shedding like the clappers at the moment...
We naturally have cycles of shedding more hair than usual, it might be the case that this is what is happening and because you have anxiety, you are overthinking it?
But stress can make you lose hair, yes.
To put it into perspective - we normally lose between 50 and 100 strands a day and when you have long hair (like moi) it looks like there are more hairs than there actually are.
Don't worry about it cocker..
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