Mat Voyce

And I'm so glad that I released that out and put that out there because I would have just been Googling stuff and just going down those rabbit holes instead of getting...

real information from real people that I respect and care for and know and can rely on.

So it was an absolute game changer for almost like self-medication in a way.

Yeah, to a degree I definitely did because obviously the anxiety stepped up each time something big, those big life changes you have.

Like there was a point where I was moving house, I'd moved house and that's when I went freelance not long after then.

So there were certain aspects of...

events that I knew almost triggered me and I have alopecia and I only get certain patches like it's only ever come out basically it comes out like every half a year for me and it's normally triggered by like a stressful event six months prior and some years I have no alopecia and it's great and it only ever affects the back of my head and the side of my head never the top or the front and it starts off as like little patches and

It was specifically worse when I moved to Leeds and I moved in with my partner and I moved to my first agency role because that was a lot.

There was a lot going on.

I was leaving home and it started off as I would have like thinning of the hair.

And for a three and four month period, I just had thinning hair.

So I just thought maybe I'm just receding.

This is it.

I'm going to lose these luscious locks now.

It's over.

And...

It came back and I was like, all right, great.

And then another six months went by and I started getting these patches and it started, it came almost like I almost lost three quarters of the back of my hair on my head.

And I went to the doctor and found out it was like alopecia and we tried to work out where it came from.

And it turns out the most obvious option was caused by like anxiety or stress.