A lot of people love Sandra Bullock, who played famous parts in films like Speed and The Lost City. She recently talked about how she deals with anxiety, alopecia, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Bullock told a heartbreaking story about how a series of stressful events, such as a home attack and her son’s grand mal seizure, caused her physical and mental health to get worse.
Bullock’s trouble started when her son Louis had a grand mal seizure, which made her scared for his life. Following this event, she was hit by a deadly spider, which caused her hair to fall out in clumps. This added to her stress. As Bullock’s worry got worse, she got alopecia, which means her hair started to thin and fall out in spots.
Bullock’s house was broken into while she was hiding in a room. That was the last straw. She said that this scary event gave her serious anxiety and PTSD, making her feel like her body was “crumbling.” Bullock lost even more hair, and she started to show signs of PTSD in her body and mind.
Bullock was determined to get better, so she went to therapy and did eye movement desensitisation and retraining (EMDR). Talk therapy and moving your eyes from side to side are used together in this new way to help people deal with painful memories. Bullock was able to get better from her PTSD symptoms and deal with the real reasons behind her worry and hair loss with EMDR.
By telling her story, she wants to encourage others to put their health first and get help for problems like PTSD and baldness.
