How Stress Leads to Hair Loss

I heard many rumors about how stress could lead to Hair Loss. But how can we make sure that stress can really lead to hair loss? I would like you to read this and you decide if stress could really lead to Hair Loss.

If your hair is thinning or falling out, you are probably bothered to find out why. Is hair loss due to stress? The answer is Yes.

The Oxford dictionary defines stress as "a demand upon physical or mental energy.' Excessive physical or emotional stress, like that associated with injury, illness or surgery, can cause one of two types of hair loss:

1. The more common type is called telogen effluvium. With this less severe type of hair loss, the hair stops growing and lies inactive, only to fall out 2 or 3 months later. Then it grows back within 6 to 9 months.

2. The other type of stress-induced hair loss is known as alopecia areata, and involves a white blood cell attack on the hair follicles. With this type of hair loss, the hair also falls out within weeks (usually in patches), but can engage the entire scalp and even body hair. Hair may grow back on its own, but treatment may also be required.

Keeping off from stress can be one of the best way to prevent hair loss!

Hair Loss and Depression

Hair loss is not a typical symptom of depression, but depression can indeed be responsible for hair loss in severe forms of depression. Learn about hormonal balance and how this is affected by depression with help from a psychotherapist and licensed mental health counselor in this free video on depression.

Learn more about this from expert David Thomas, a licensed mental health counselor in the state of Florida since 1986 and the National Board of Certified Counselors since 1987.