I found this article that was posted yesterday on the Mirror.co.uk site. It is about a woman whose hair loss nearly killed her. It is a very touching article so I’m reposting it here for all of the readers:
Shoving a handful of pills into my mouth, I washed them down with a big swig of vodka.
I didn’t even know what I’d taken – I’d grabbed whatever was in the medicine cabinet and hoped it would end my pain. Then, I called one of my friends.
“I’ve taken an overdose,” I sobbed into the phone.
My mum Teresa picked up the receiver downstairs and had heard everything.
She piled me into the car and took me to hospital, near our home in Bradford, West Yorkshire.
“Why?”
She kept asking. “My hair!” I cried. “No one knows what it’s like.”
Up until the age of 13, I’d been just like everyone else. Then, suddenly, my long brown hair started to fall out in clumps.
At first, it was just a few places, here and there. But, gradually, more patches began to appear. I tried covering it up, doing my hair in different styles, using hair thickening creams and sprays. But nothing worked. There was no getting away from it – I was going bald.
The doctors diagnosed alopecia. “We don’t know what has caused it,” the specialist said. “It could have been shock.”
One of my grandmothers has passed away and I’d moved house and schools.
But I’d never dreamed it would make me lose my hair.
Going to school became a nightmare. “Hey, baldie!” the kids would shout at me down the corridor. [click to continue…]
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