The Emotional impact of Hair Loss.

 

Under normal circumstance, we all lose some hair every day. Normal daily hair loss is the natural result of the three phase of the hair’s growth cycle. The growth cycle provides of the continuous growth, fall, and replacement of individual hair strands. Hair that is shed in the telogen phase is replace by anew hair, in that same follicle in the next anlagen phase. Although estimates of the rate of hair loss have long been quoted at 100 to 150 hairs per day, recent measurement indicate that the average of hair loss is closed to 35 to 40 hair per day.

As professional hairlist, it is likely that you will be the first person that many of these people come to with questions about their hair loss. It’s important that you have a basic understanding of the different types of hair loss and the products and services that are available.

Although the medical community does not recognize hair loss as a medical condition, the anguish felt by many of those who suffer from abnormal hair loss is very real, and all too often overlooked. Result from a investigated perception of bald balding men showed that compared to men who had hair, bald men were perceived as

• Less physically attractive
• Less assertive
• Less successful
• Less personally likable
• Older (by about five years)

Results of a report investigated how bald men perceive themselves showed that greater hair loss had a more significant impact than moderate hair loss. Men with more severe hair loss:

• Experience significance more negative social and emotional effects
• Are more preoccupied with their baldness.
• Make some effort to control or compensate for their hair loss

For women, abnormal hair loss is particularly devastating. Women experience hair loss try to disguise it from everyone, even their doctor. Women also tend to worry that their hair loss is a symptoms of a serious illness. Studies indicate that women have a greater emotional investment in their appearance, and although abnormal hair loss is not as common in women as it is in men, it can be very traumatic. The vast majority of women with abnormal hair loss feel anxious, helpless and less attractive. Many think they are the only ones who have the problem.