After finding success in the action comedy “The Lost City” opposite Channing Tatum, Sandra Bullock will star in Bullet Train opposite Brad Pitt. The trailer of the film was released recently. Outside of the film industry, Bullock, 57, has spoken about a time in her life when she was so stressed that she developed anxiety and alopecia.
The actress, who is currently starring in ITV4’s adaptation of 1994 film Fast, revealed that a few years ago she felt like she was going to die after a series of stressful life events caused serious physical damage to her body. Speaking to Jada Pinkett Smith, Willow Smith and Adrienne Banfield Norris, Bullock claimed she was “not the same” after her home was broken into by a stalker, the latest in a string of unfortunate events.
Bullock said her first stressful event before the theft was with her son Louis, who suffered a massive seizure and put his life in danger. Some people associate seizures with severe seizures, also known as tonic-clonic seizures. Other medical conditions can sometimes cause the following types of seizures:
Low blood sugar and high body temperature
heart attack. These seizures often have two phases: a “tonic” phase and a “clonic” phase. People usually lose consciousness in the first stage. A person may freeze and fall to the ground.
Bullock was worried about her son’s condition. A few days later, he was bitten by a tarantula, and his condition worsened as his hair fell out in clumps.
“I saw that and I thought my body was breaking,” he recalled. “He didn’t react well to what was going on.”
“My hair is thin. Everywhere I look there are patches of alopecia. I stuck my head in front of the tub.
“If I don’t do this, I will die. “I almost always feel like I can handle anything, but my body is something I have no control over,” he said.
In addition to being bald, Bullock suffered “extreme anxiety” and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) following a home invasion in which she hid in a closet. In an emotional statement, the actress described how her home was destroyed while she was there. “I think being in the closet makes you think, ‘It’s not going to end well.’ Hiding in the closet doesn’t help. Louis was alone with me that night.
After the incident, the actress sought counseling, specifically eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy, which she described as the “dissociation process” (EMDR). Using indirect eye movements and talk therapy, EMDR helps patients overcome the images, emotions, beliefs, and physical sensations associated with traumatic experiences that lead to a variety of mental health problems.
EMDR Consultant Dr. Justin Havens. “Using EMDR can help initiate the body’s natural healing and recovery process after trauma. Your therapist will be with you as you heal from within.
Bullock found that this type of therapy helped treat PTSD and reduce the devastating stress of alopecia. In contrast to the immediate response to immediate threat or fear, PTSD patients’ physiological responses to severe stress or panic are long-lasting.
That is, even when there is no danger, the body sends hormonal signals to shut down non-essential processes (such as digestion, skin healing, and hair growth) so that energy can be used for instinctive responses to danger. This may help you understand why some people start losing their hair after being diagnosed with PTSD.
When treating PTSD in people with hair loss, it’s important to gently massage the scalp and not use harsh tools or chemicals to burn the hair. If you have sensitive or spot-prone areas, a dermatologist can advise you on effective scalp treatments.
