Alopecia Symptoms - The Psychological Part

The easiest way to describe alopecia – Non contagious disease causing hair to fall out causing round patches. The word alopecia originates from Greek word, meaning loss of hair. The cure for alopecia symptom is very illusive, no conclusive results until today and researchers are still tinkering for the cure. However, a great deal have been known for growth mechanism especially due to modern research and technological advancement.

"Alopecia areata is erratic – nobody is certain how long will it remain, months or years before regrows."

Alopecia areata is erratic – nobody is certain how long will it remain, months or years before regrows. This symptom does not discriminate age, gender and

cultural. Just to get use to the different terms used for alopecia, there are 4 with different notation:

1)    Alopecia Areata – Patchy hair loss

2)    Alopecia Totalis – Complete baldness

3)    Alopecia Universalis – Complete hair loss from whole human body.

4)    Androgenic Alopecia – Also known as Androgenetic Alopecia, a hair

        loss with a well defined pattern and rarely leads to complete baldness.

What we look like may not what we are. You just can’t summarize a person by just reading a few chapters of his/her biography . However, people do judge a book by its cover, and there is no denying that our looks affect our well being. In the modern culture that we lived in, hair is the symbol of vitality, fashion and integral part of beauty. It is hard to like who you are at the inner side when you dislike who you are at the outer side. Most people with symptoms from alopecia areata would agree that there are many worse condition than hair fall, but they would also agree that this can affect social standings and personal interactions.

As alopecia areata affects people so dramatically, many people will do almost anything to have their hair back. The effect from this symptom seems to have on people is to wipe out their self-esteem instantly. They are consumed by their hair fall from the moment they wake up from bed in the morning.

• Did You Know?
  People with alopecia areata, totalis or universalis are otherwise perfectly healthy.