Stress isn’t something that you can exactly put your finger on, and it manifests itself in many ways, but hair loss and stress always seem to go hand in hand. This is because there are very few people these days that have much time to sit, relax, and have a moment to enjoy alone in peace and quiet. If you think about it, when was the last time you were able to take a day and do anything you wanted without interruption or even the guilty feeling that you should be somewhere else doing something productive? If it’s been that long then you may be suffering from stress and not know it. Make a list of what you are responsible for on a daily basis. If it has more than ten or fifteen items on it, you need to start delegating responsibilities to other people. This is because the biggest cause of stress is taking on too much and not letting other people help. Don’t wait until it is too late. Too late means waking up in the morning, putting together a list of tasks to accomplish during the day, and taking a shower, only to find clumps of hair washing down the drain.

Different Types Of Stress

What is the connection between hair loss and stress? There are two different types of hair loss related to stress. Physical stress such as a child birth is one of the correlations made between hair loss and stress. The traumatic shock of child birth to the system causes the hair to stop growing and revert to a resting phase. Hair can be dormant for months, but before new hair can grow the resting hair has to fall out and this usually doesn’t happen until a few months after the trauma. Once the old hair falls out, new hair can begin to grow.

Intense stress is another type of stress linked to hair loss and stress. When this type of stress occurs, the hair follicles are attacked by white blood cells that cause the hair to stop growing. After a few weeks, the hair will fall out. What makes this type of hair loss and stress different is that when the hair begins to fall out, it falls out in patches. This type of hair loss and stress may not only occur on your head, but can happen all over your body. This kind of hair loss can be total and although your hair may grow back, it usually involves some kind of treatment or hair may not grow back at all.

Stress from something like child birth is more physical and not always something that can be prevented. Intense stress is also something that can sneak up on you, so the most important thing to do is get immediate medical help.