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My hair is always stinging where I'm losing it and the stinging usually only comes after an anxious thought. Usually if I have a mini panic attack ten minutes later my hair start stingin. I can even spot the pain with my finger and if I apply pressure it feels painful and I feel my scalp kind of pulsing with a heart beat throb. I also noticed more painful stinging and falling hairs days I didn't get a lot of sleep or feel fatigued. Help sos.
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Anxiety and STRESS WILL create issues with not only your hair but with your health overall too!
There is no reason to become stresses out or to allow anxiety to overcome you.
Stay POSITIVE. Accept the realities of your life.
All things in life can and will get BETTER especially if you stay positive and accepting. -
Well...yes. Anxiety causes two kinds of hair loss- 1.Telogen effluvium: In this type of hair loss, the hairs enter the resting phase prematurely all of a sudden. Generally 30% or so hair follicles are affected. Hair fall is noticed within 2-4 months of the shock. The shock follicles get can be due to anxiety.
2. Immediate hair fall: Most derms n docs say that this is not possible. But it possible and very common. When a person is severly anxious, the hormones in his body goes through imbalance, nutrient absorption decreases etc. Anxiety increases a hormone called cortisol which is responsible for hair loss. Most hairs lost because of this is generally hairs in telogen phase so that is really not a problem if it does not go on for long.
Hope it helps
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No. How do you define stress anyway? There is no proof that "stress" (whatever that is) can cause hair loss.Comment
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This is a good point. Throughout history, humans in general put there bodies under extreme physiological stress and it's really hard to draw a correlation between which triggers hair loss and what does not. I am a firm believer that if the stress induced within the body is great enough, it can definitely trigger TE. I have been through this and know countless others that have as well. The thing that makes it tricky is that TE can be like a death sentence to someone experiencing MPB... Once again, I know this for fact because it happened to me twice. After knee surgery, I had TE and lost hair rapidly. The problem was, I had a difficult time regrowing it, because those follicles were already a victim to MPB. My hair "aged" 5 years in 4 months.
In terms of emotional stress, I personally believe that if severe enough it can cause drastic hormonal and other biochemical imbalances in the body, that your body will, like any physical injury, work hard to repair. In that scenario, your body stops giving a shit about "pointless" things, like your hair and can send a great percentage of follicles into telogen, or even induce TE... If you have MPB, once again, this can be very traumatic for your hairComment
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"Three types of hair loss that can be associated with high stress levels include: Telogen effluvium. In telogen effluvium , significant stress pushes large numbers of hair follicles into a resting phase"
"If your doctor said your hair loss is from anxiety and/or stress, yes, stress, including the stress caused by being overly anxious, can cause hair loss, thinning, and balding. Being stressed and anxious (worried, apprehensive, fretful, fearful) causes the body to produce the stress response."
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"Three types of hair loss that can be associated with high stress levels include: Telogen effluvium. In telogen effluvium , significant stress pushes large numbers of hair follicles into a resting phase"
"If your doctor said your hair loss is from anxiety and/or stress, yes, stress, including the stress caused by being overly anxious, can cause hair loss, thinning, and balding. Being stressed and anxious (worried, apprehensive, fretful, fearful) causes the body to produce the stress response."
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For me stress would be increased heartbeat, racing thoughts that lead to more stress, stressing over hopeless stuff is twice as bad, none of my friends really have a shitty life like me and they all have better hair. I don't really even have a lot of hair loss in my family just my dad and one uncle. Both grandparents had hair and so did the rest of my uncles. Probably is mostly genetic though as all my friends with good hair have dad's with good hair. I know one other guy balding like me and he has a bald dad also.Comment
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Yes, it will! I have suffered hair loss because of anxiety in high school. Terrible! After that period, I have been better.Comment
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Anxiety cannot turn hair gray, but alopecia areata tends to target dark hairs, so those that already have gray hairs may be more likely to find only their dark hairs coming out, and thus it will appear that their hair has turned gray. it's important to note that not all hair loss is caused by anxiety, but when you have anxiety it's easy to worry more about your hair. Many people with anxiety pay too much attention to things that occur naturally, believing that they must all be caused by anxiety. It's even possible to convince yourself you're suffering from hair loss when in fact there is no hair loss at all.Comment
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Hi, There are many symptoms of anxiety that seem to become self-fulfilling reasons for hair loss. There are several factors likely stress, mental stability and many more. There are several conditions which mentioned and cause for hair loss like one of the vital reason as it is stress which can have multiple conditions that lead to hair loss. These include:
• Alopecia Areata – In this condition, sudden loss of large clumps of hair in areas around your scalp area.
• Telogen Effluvium - This is a condition where more hairs than normal prepare to fall out.
• Trichotillomania - This is a habitual condition caused by stress and anxiety where the person pulls out hairs without realizing it.Comment
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There was a member here that had stated that stress does not cause hair loss.
HOPEFULLY he will learn from the rest of us here !
It certainly IS factual data on what stress/anxiety/depression WILL do to ones hairline...
I did experience my own hairloss partially due to STRESS and depression many years ago now.
There would be no reason to not to consider common-sense/objective advice and facts here, especially for the very young.Comment
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Hi, topback. I believe that Anxiety is a form of emotional stress, and stress can certainly cause hair loss.
To correctly tell whether you are experiencing hair loss you could take a photo today and then again in a couple of weeks and compare the difference. But on topic, stress can cause hair loss in multiple ways either due to you basically pulling your hair out (I would call this more physical stress), or it can cause your hair follicles to temporally stop due to changes at a hormonal level.
Source: https://fegates.com/3-ways-in-which-...use-hair-loss/Comment
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IMO no. Nothing you do short of taking steroids or pulling your hair out would ever really cause MPB to change its course over the years. Im also not a believer that diet or nutrients really changes MPB either. Maybe something could cause your hair to grow a little faster or whatever but the actual process of miniaturization over many hair cycles will happen regardless.
Androgens are still the most proven theory with actual real world results so I will say that is what its all about. If diet/stress or something could alter androgen levels than I might believe it does something.Comment
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