Stress can cause many health related problems, and it also cause hair loss. Excessive physical or emotional stress, like that associated with upset, injury, illness or surgery can cause one of two types of hair loss with their hair loss treatment. The more common type of hair loss is called telogen effluvium. With this less severe type of hair loss, the hair stops growing and lies dormant, only to fall out two or three months later. The hair then grows back within 6 to 9 months Alopecia Areata is the other type of stress induced medical hair loss. This involves a white blood cell attack on the hair follicles. The hair falls out within weeks and usually in patches. This can involve the entire scalp and even body hair. Hair can grow back on it's own. Treatment may also be required. If this is what stress can do to your hair, imagine what it can do to the rest of your body. Studies have shown again and again how much illness and disease is stress related. The best way to deal with stress is to avoid stressful circumstances. It is unfortunate however that we live in a world where that is increasingly more and more difficult to do. What I can do here, is offer you a list of coping skills to help you deal better with or even avoid emotional stress. By avoiding stress, you can avoid dangerously chronic and unhealthy stress. Here's how to avoid it. 1) Always, remember that much worry and upset can be only in your mind and has very little basis in reality. 2) Never worry alone. Always have an emotional support network that you can tap into to see if your fears are reality based or imagined. 3) If you find your upset has a basis in reality, then call on your own "friend advisory board" as to what your most logical and least emotional response should be to your situation. 4) Don't hold on so tightly to so many things . It's our fear of loss to any number things of that can cause stress. There really is a lot of gain in learning to let go and living with a just a bit of indifference. 5) Stop worrying about the outcomes. Do the best you can do, and the outcomes will take care of themselves in life. Worrying about outcomes will not make them turn up more often in your favor. 6) Focus on pleasurable memories . This is a good reason to make a lot of great memories in your life. You can go within and focus on those in moments of upset. The goal here is to realize that if you were that happy once, then it's possible that when this current problem passes, you can be that happy again. 7) Realize that most bad things are temporary, including your stressful situation. 8) Stay focused and live in the present moment as often as possible. Most worry and stress is cause by focusing on the past and future. 9) Practice gratitude. Be grateful for what you have, and you'll often forget about what you don't have. Many times stress can come from a scarcity mentality 10) Always be aware of what you can control, and what you can't. Learn this distinction and stop worrying over what's beyond your ability to fix. If you can help the situation, again do the best you can and move on. These are 10 tips on what to do to avoid and manage stress more effectively. Remember most things in your life just aren't worth losing your health or your hair over. Stress doesn't make anything better, but chronic stress can make you lose your hair and sick. This, by the way can only bring more stress. I wish the best of luck in trying to stay stress free as hair loss treatments.