Can high stress cause your hair to fall out or thin out?
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When your body is dealing with stress, your hair becomes a low priority for receiving the body's energy and nutrients. So during especially stressful times your hair can enter a resting phase, basically falling out and waiting to regrow until the body is under less stress.
Stress triggers for hair loss are usually personal and emotional, like the death of a family member, divorce, surgery or major illness, or being involved in an accident. For some women, the stress of pregnancy also leads to hair loss, despite the common assumption that pregnancy equals beautiful, healthy hair and nails. (That's usually more a result of the prenatal vitamins anyway.)
It takes a few weeks for the hair loss to begin, so often by the time you notice your hair thinning, the stress has passed. The good news is that once the stress is under control, hair will usually begin to regrow after 6 to 12 weeks. Eating plenty of protein and healthy fats can help your hair regrow as quickly as possible.
Thats what they say as I know I have been having excessive hair loss for almost a year now and nobody can tell me whats wrong but I know if it doesn't stop I will soon be bald..this has been very distressing. I am under stress but not this bad and I have been under stress before even worse then I am now and I never lost hair to the extreme that I am now! Am really getting scared!
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