Stress and Hair Losing

For a long time, the link between stress, a skin disease and psychological problems has been known. A person can reflect the problems of his own or regarding the family as a dermatologic problem. Also a skin disease (hair losing)  brings about psychological and even psychosocial problems regarding with his own appearance. If it is wanted to be told in a short way, there has been two types of relation between  hair losing and stress.

1. First relation; Stress brings about hair losing without being organic reason, supported with psychical neurotic condition.

2. Second relation; Due to hair losing, person’s own psychical reactions towards his appearance.

Different measures about hair lose that develop because of stres resists to very old times. Medicine literature is full with sudden and serious dramatic hair lose examples that occur due to stres. Acute and serious streess conditions like the death of a loved one, separation from darling or work loss can cause striking, fast and strong hair lose and this situation is called telogen effulivium alerted by stres.

In addition to the external impacts, physical neurose and chronic anksiyete are also influential on the chronic, stealthy and slow hair lose. At this point, it is thought that hair roots are an answer to the stres by the way of  premature precipitation to anagen phase to telogen one.

Alopecia Areata: It is a hair lose which is in a bigness of coin, namely 2-2,5 cm diameter and occurs cşrcular. It can be formed on each two genders. Most events recover of their own record. It is showed that psychosocial stres are effective about this illness’es causes when it is investigated especially on child patients, it is stabilized that children encounter with negative life events before the period of hair lose.

The main reason of hair lose which occurs after psychosocial stres is the complex interaction between the psycho neuroendocrine system and immune system. That is to say, immune system starts action with the effects of  psychosocial events and consequently hair fall happens.

The second interaction between stres and hair fall is the psychosocial problems (stress) which hair fall causes.

When various psychosocial measures were done over people who have hair fall, it was found out that hair fall influences some feelings like feeling of pride, body appearance, self-respect and confidence to yourself. At the workings about men and women who have hair fall, it is seen that negative results like depression, introversion, excessive nervousness and decrease in feeling of self-pride happen with the increase of hair lose on men while it is seen that it effects women’s daily life negatively and they live social problems. Males can cope with this situation actively, but it is too hard for females because of the fact that cultural and personal meanings like sexual personality, sexuality and attraction are given to their hairs. These kinds of people apply for some methods like behaving more tense and shy, holding their necks upright (this cause neck ache) washing and drying their hairs frequently in society. Eventually, they become stressful, tense and have psychosocial problems. This situation should be considered during the treatment. Medicine treatment can be applied during the treatment of psychosocial support like as quanting emphatic listening and curing the behaviours is necessary.

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