My hair is currently feeling the burn from years of chronic stress and asthma steroids from 16-21. I’m 24yrs/old and used to have extremely thick, curly hair. I used to frequently permanently colour it but as of the last 4 years it only sees temporary dye every 8 weeks and only bleached twice (on my untouched midsections). I have a Maltese/Irish background and my family seems to have amazing hair genetics for maintaining colour and thickness.

I’ve been under a lot of very acute stress and as of right now, it’s probably going to continue this way indefinitely as it’s primarily in relation to my living situation. I tried the rosemary water scalp massage method for a few months with absolutely 0 benefit. I’ve been using k18 leave-in (admittedly probably not consistently enough) and I’ve recently switched to Growth Bomb Scalp Rescue Tonic as I’ve heard it does help prevent fall-out, but if this doesn’t work then I’m honestly stumped. I’ve recently started taking Nature’s Way Beauty Hair, Scalp, Skin & Nails vitamins. Even most of my curls have been reduced to now more wavy than their old ringlets.

I do seem to have a lot of split ends and breakage. I loosely braid my hair every night and wear a silk bonnet, but none of this has seemed to actually improve hair loss from my scalp itself. I use only silk hair ties and only wear my hair up when it’s required (for work, but tied loosely). Even my hair strands themselves feel and look thinner.

I’m honestly desperate for suggestions.

I rarely, if ever, apply heat anymore and I air dry my hair.

I’ve attached a (somewhat) recent photo, the brown is all natural, untouched regrowth. I did have it heat styled for this, unfortunately I don’t have a photo of it natural.