'Seeing the bald patches spooked me. Unlike dark circles that I could hide with concealer, these felt like something bigger'
Scrolling through my friend’s online wedding album I noticed something alarming. In the background, behind the grinning bride and groom, I’d been caught by the photographer on the dance floor, laughing with some friends. But it wasn’t my ruffled cocktail dress that caught my eye. The flash of the camera had captured a constellation of white dots across the top of my head. I shook it off as dust on the lens and scrolled to the next photo.
My stress levels were at an all-time high and more patches were cropping up every week. When these tests came back inconclusive, I was referred to a dermatologist.Three months later, a dermatologist, an older man in his late fifties, performed my assessment in a room along with 10 medical students. While his students watched, the doctor took a quick glance at my head.
While there’s no one reason people get alopecia , it can happen at any age and, like many diseases, can be triggered by stress. Shedding strands had now become a way for my body to manage anxiety. We spoke at length about my career change and how I had been dealing with the pressure—mostly, by ignoring it.
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