Could prolonged anxiety and poor sleep cause hair loss?

[NothingStopsTheCurse]

Hello. I've been noticing lot of shedding in the last 5 months. I have like 30% less density in a diffuse pattern. I suspect my chronic anxiety and poor sleep is causing this. Why do I think it could be related to that? First of all I'm taking hair loss drugs which is less likely that my androgenic alopecia is getting worse.My hairline haven't moved so it could be another indicator that it is not Androgenetic Alopecia. Another thing that I've noticed is that almost all hair I shed(let's say 85%) are thicks hairs. In Androgenetic Alopecia, you are supposed to shed more miniaturized than thick hairs. The last thing that makes me think it is not Androgenetic Alopecia is that even though my hair has less density, harder to comb, lighter, etc like you would see in Androgenetic Alopecia, the rest of the hair is very thick.There are no miniaturized hairs in the scalp, it seems like hair is shedding but not growing again, there is no process of miniaturization.

 

[BetaBoy]

How long have you been on Dutasteride and minoxidil? If it's inside 12 months it's probably just a standard shed unrelated to your anxiety and sleep habits.

 

[NothingStopsTheCurse]

How long have you been on Dutasteride and minoxidil? If it's inside 12 months it's probably just a standard shed unrelated to your anxiety and sleep habits.

I've been using them for 16 months. My hair now is worse than when I had the minoxidil and dutasteride shed. I have lost a lot of hair in the last 4 to 6 months, specially on top of the scalp

 

[jimtmcdaniels]

It is said by some very wise that:
Our hair loss is directly connected to our addiction to obsessive thinking.
Our body is just showing us this problem manifested as hair loss.
Isn’t it interesting that our hair loss is right above our obsessive thinking brain?
Yet our fellow over thinkers will incorrectly say we are wearing a hat too much…

I wonder if the areas of hair loss would show corresponding to the areas of over active brain activity if ever thoroughly tested.
Our obsessive internal thinking is directly related to fear.
That our adolescence is when our mind machine and ego fully activate, and that’s also when the hair loss starts.
That’s when my hair loss started..
I am now 57 y.o.
14 years ago I took a great self forgiveness on my obsessive thoughts introspective writing course and still apply the tools which also allow us to see the deeper connections to the obsession and how the thoughts create the feelings and emotions.
There are many who are daily blogging their writings for all to see how it’s done.
Our thoughts resonate and lock into our bodies. The writing spoken out loud reverses/unlocks this resonance.
Writing done consistently/daily can have dramatic effects over time.
BTW It was VERY empowering for my sister who couldn’t stop thinking about it when our parents passed.
I am much more stable and calm and content and my thoughts much much much less often and grounded in reality and I am much more content and loving of myself.
Unfortunately my hair loss hasn’t reversed. Seems once the hair follicles are gone, they are gone.
I wish I knew then what I know now.

it’s very interesting you mention Anxiety.
This is one way/example of how anxiety works:
Us the driver, is stopped by our police.
As our officer walks up to our door, because we the driver,has not tamed our fully activated in adulthood mind machine:
fears their world,
fears what will happen next,
fears their decisions,
fears their future,

SO we in a split second ask our mind machine what is going to happen as if we are psychic.

We/our mind will often come back with the worse fear answers in an instant:
Images of a movie where the officer brutalizes.
Memories of our past where things did not go well.
Visions of the officer ticketing us with all that they can.
Etc.

So the officer gets to our door and we are then breathing heavy and heart racing and we realize we are having an emotional anxiety attack.
Yet the emotions the thought produced are so overwhelming and seemingly here to stay that we forget the split second action of obsessive thinking that lead to the whole experience.
And of course doesn’t participation in is our mind, mind controls us and mines our body’s precious life resources, eventually to health problems and a dried up body death.