Healthy hair gives us a nice feelings and everybody knows that. And so far, few individuals believe that there is a relationship between mental stress and hair. Several mental health conditions can results in unhealthy or thinning hair, creating a cycle of damage to self-esteem that may appear difficult to run away. To overcome this, people mostly go for hair transplant rather than finding the root cause.

Stress of any type can play a role in hair loss. Illness, including depression can affect our looks and feelings. Our psychological and physical state is associated with hair loss, considering that factors such as overwork, depression, stress, and lack of sleep can be the reason of noticeable drop in our hair.

Our hair usually goes through a “resting phase.” It occurs about every 3 years and lasts for almost 3 months before our hair starts to grow another time. During this inactive phase, more hairs than normal fall out, and our hair seems thinner. This is called “telogen effluvium.” It can be brought on earlier by stress that is, starting sooner and lasting longer in the usual cycle of rest and hair growth.

We will discuss some common anxiety related hair loss descriptions.

• It appears you’re going bald
• It look as if your hair is falling out more than usual
• It seems like you’re losing hair on your head or other parts on the body
• You alarmed that you are going bald because of your depression
• You note you’re getting some bald spots
• You observe your hair is thinning
• You see that your hair is falling out in bunch
• You’ll also see an increase in the quantity of hair coming out when you brush or comb your hair, when rubbing or washing your skin, or that you’re pulling out bunch of hair at once.
• You’ll observe there is more hair in your brush, comb,  or in the shower or bath tub

You can have hair loss on one area of the scalp only, or many areas of the head, or the complete head. You can face hair loss on any other part of the body too. Hair loss may lead, go together with, or go behind an increase of other anxiety feelings and symptoms, or take place by itself.

Hair fall can accompany, proceed, or follow an episode of anxiety, fear, and extreme stress, or happen ‘out of the blue’ and for no clear reason. Hair fall can have variation in intensity from slight to moderate and to severe. For instance, hair fall can be mildly, moderately, or greatly visible. Hair loss can change every day, or from second to minute. All of the above variations and combinations are common.

Signs and symptoms of hair loss may include:

• Slow thinning on top of scalpThis is most common kind of hair fall, affecting both women and men as they grow old. In men, hair often start to recede from the forehead in a line that is like letter M. Women usually hold on to the hairline on the forehead but hair start shedding from entire head. Every individual have to experience this but depression can speed up this process.
• Circular or patchy bald spots.Some individuals face coin-sized, smooth bald spots. This kind of hair loss usually affects just the head, but it sometimes also take place in eyebrows or beards. In some cases, your skin may turn out to be painful or itchy before the hair falls out.
• Rapid loosening of hair.An emotional or physical shock can be the reason to loosen hair. Handfuls of hair may come out when washing or combing your hair or even after calm rubbing or pulling. This kind of hair loss typically causes general hair thinning and not bald spots.
• Full-body hair loss.Some medical conditions and treatments, like chemotherapy for cancer, can cause the loss of hair all over your body. The hair normally grows back. This type is not linked with depression.
• Patches of scaling that extend over the scalp. This is a indication of ringworm. It may be go with by broken hair, swelling redness, and oozing.

Antidepressants and Hair Fall

Antidepressants can cause hair loss. It is the kind of hair loss caused by antidepressants is known as telogen effluvium. Telogen effluvium happens when your body is stressed by some means—possibly by childbirth, surgery, illness, mental stress, or poor diet or a medication, which causes hair follicles to go into the resting stage too early. Because more hair follicles are in the resting stage, as a result more hair sheds, leading to hair loss on the whole scalp.

Is It Permanent?

The good news is that this kind of hair loss is not everlasting. Generally, people will get well completely without any exterior assistance in about 6 months once the medicine is stopped.