Is Stress Causing My Rapid Hairline Recession?

Dr Rassman,

I know that I am in a completely different country, but your website has been extremely useful for when i need some reliable information about hair loss. It would be great if you can answer my question.

I’m a 21 year old Asian male and for the last couple of years i was a Norwood II, but about 6 months ago, I had an extremely stressful University examination period. A month after the exams were over I noticed that the front of my hairline was thinning, and a month after that, my hairline had receded about a cm. From then on I’ve just been obsessing about my hairline, wondering if its just the stress causing the rapid hairline recession, if I’m heading towards Norwood III and wondering if the hair in that area would ever grow back. There is some miniturisation at the front of the hairline and some at the temples.

Any information would be a great help

Thank you.

Without mapping out your hair for miniaturization, I really couldn’t tell you if what you experienced is the normal progression to a mature hairline or just early balding. I’m hoping you’ve already read this post about the mature hairline, but you need an honest doctor to give you an opinion that can only be rendered after an examination.