Although most will not automatically associate their hair loss with the recent recession, a small study conducted by a popular men’s magazine has found that there is actually a connection between the two. The recent recession and fears associated with it have actually contributed to the balding of a few men in the study.
The main element that combines both the recession and hair loss into the same equation is actually stress. Stress or anxiety about future events really is a modern condition. When humans were living as farmers of hunter foragers, the levels of anxiety that they were subjected too were far less than what modern executives or business owners experience today. The human body tends to not take stress very well and all sort of illnesses, diseases and conditions can be directly associated with stress.
The recession will almost certainly affect the majority of people negatively. Although different people will have differing levels of stress tolerance, most people will feel the stress of the recession. Some people will be able to take stress well and not show outward signs of “over exposure” while other people will become extremely anxious and start losing their hair quite quickly. One important point is that hair loss caused by stress affect males and females the same. There is not gender preference.
The stress component is magnified when people are subjected to the stress on a daily basis. Further research by the magazine has shown that those people exposed to daily bouts of high stress are much more likely to experience the side-effects of it like hair loss. It was demonstrated that stress actually builds on itself, sort of like a plane in a spiral spin downwards. The best way to not develop the bad side-effects of stress is to settle whatever problem that is causing the stress in the first place.
The main problem with the recession is that the problem is so big that no single person can ever hope to solve to the problem to eliminate the stress that it comes with. So instead of looking to solve the problem you have to learn to manage the stress itself. Trying to solve the problem of the recession is simply going to get you more stressed and lose more of you hair. Below we have identified some tried and true techniques that you can use to better manage and control your stress.
One of the all time best natural stress busters available is simply exercise. Some people who are stressed out find it hard to think of other things and even avoid exercise so they can think of a way to get themselves out of the situation they are in. With things like the recession where you can’t really do much about, you have to learn to not obsess about the problem and start to pro-actively manage your stress so that you don’t become the next victim of hair loss.
Another way is to prepare yourself mentally for any challenges ahead that you might have to face. This includes redundancies or even eventual bankruptcy in the worst case scenario. If you draw up an action plan and find out all the different option that you have at different points in time then your level of stress will reduce substantially. The stress isn’t so much about the current situation that you are in but rather the uncertainties about the future. When you draw up an action plan most of those uncertainties become specified options which are much easier to deal with when the situation actually arrives.
Overall, the additional hair loss that people experience in the recession is almost 100% caused by stress and most probably the mismanagement of it. If you feel stressed you must take the reins and try manage it so that you aren’t exposed to additional stress. Never obsess about the recession and look at it systematically and define all the different options that you have. That is the best way to avoid hair loss in this recession.