It’s a condition that affects approximately 1.7% of the population both men and women equally. Yet in spite of the emotional turmoil it causes sufferers, alopecia is still poorly understood.
When Emma Coughlan, pictured, of Redcar got alopecia, looking back on how traumatic it was, she says she didn’t think her life could ever be normal again.
Emma wanted someone to really understand the tremendous anxiety she was suffering and for things to go back to normal and in desperation went to a semi permanent make up practitioner which ended with disastrous results.
Posted by The Northern Echo, author David Honeywell, 13th August 2011:
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