According to experts, a growing number of millennials are losing hair because of stress.
Dr. Andrea Hui, a dermatologist in the San Francisco Bay Area, says men and women alike are coming to her office for help combating their baldness, whether by natural supplements or by hair follicle injections. Hui’s patients are sometimes as young as 18 years old. Angelo David, a stylist in New York City, tells the New York Post more of his young clients are now concerned with their balding and thinning hair.
Both of them blame stress for the hair loss. Research shows millennials are more stressed out than any other generation, and that this stress is leading to a variety of hair loss conditions.
The symptoms of millennial stress are evident in other public spaces, including the workplace and college campuses, where students and faculty are increasingly shutting down debate and diversity of viewpoint out of fear of being exposed to new, potentially anxiety-inducing information.
As the Atlantic points out, the growing culture of fear and ‘micro-aggressions’ is slowly becoming institutionalized, spreading into classrooms and even policy. An example of this is University of California president Janet Napolitano’s instructions for students to refrain from using ‘triggering’ phrases such as “America is the land of opportunity” and “There is only one race, the human race.”
“Survey findings suggest a connection between stress and age. Millennials and Gen Xers report a higher level of stress than any other generation and appear to have difficulty coping, while older people report lower stress,” the American Psychological Association reports. “In addition, many Millennials say they feel isolated/lonely due to stress, even though they report having a number of close, personal relationships (4.8 is the reported average number of “close friends” that Millennials say they feel at ease with, can talk to about personal matters and can call on for help).”
