A woman who had never experienced alopecia has documented her shocking experience of developing the condition and losing all her hair in just two months.
Having never had any major hair loss in the past, Alberte Schack, 29, was stunned when her boyfriend pointed out a bald spot in August of this year. She thought it was just a joke at first, even warning him that it’s “not something to make jokes about.” However, he wasn’t kidding and he captured a photo of the top of her head to show the small patch on her parting.
“I immediately freaked out and started shaking and crying,” Schack told Newsweek. “It was like my body already knew what it was. I knew about alopecia, and it was the first thing I thought about.”
In the following days and weeks, Schack, from Denmark, watched as her hair continued to fall out in large …