Why losing your hair feels like your worst nightmare

You may not appreciate it but hair loss is essential for healthy hair. And what’s more it happens to every one of us every day of our lives.

Most of us don’t realize that hair loss is essential for hair growth. Every hair on your head will at some point fall out and be replaced.

You may not have appreciated that you have around 100,000 hair follicles at birth and the same number right throughout your life. Most of us will lose around 100 hairs a day as part of a natural hair growth cycle.

Losing this amount of hair is nothing at all to worry about – it is only when hair loss becomes excessive that you have a problem.

Losing too much hair is one way the body has of telling us that all is not well. Shining, radiant hair is a sign of physical health and mental ease. Dull, lifeless thinning hair is a clear sign that something is wrong.

Shiny, flowing hair is so much part of the traditional image of female beauty that for women losing it can feel totally devastating.

But why do women find hair loss or thinning hair so much more distressing than a man? Unlike men, whose lack of hair may be mocked but accepted as a fact of life – female hair loss is less understood and less well tolerated.

For most women how our hair is looking and behaving on any given day will determine how we good we feel about ourselves. Bad hair days are the cause of much misery because hair is so important to the way we look – and we know it.

It’s also unfortunately true that society doesn’t deal with hair loss in women very well. There may be unsympathetic and curious reactions from other people – especially with total hair loss or patchy baldness.

Amazingly – hair loss can affect a woman’s chances of finding work or (possibly more understandable) a partner. Hair loss – even when it doesn’t result in bald patches – can seriously undermine a woman’s self confidence and self esteem.

The good news for women is that we are generally much better at seeking help and taking action when things go wrong with our bodies. Male pattern baldness is a natural process for a large number of men – for women it’s a sign something is wrong. Women know this and will usually seek help quickly.

The even better news is that there are hair loss solutions now that wil help many women in this situation. Hair restoration products based on natural high dose vitamins and minerals are available which have helped many women. There are other forms of medical hair restoration too which give women more choice and control.

Hair restoration for women has a good success rate – far more than for men. So the message is – hair loss may feel like your worst nightmare but it can be treated and the chances of a positive outcome are good.