As some of you may have read before, I had been having an incredibly stressful year (ignoring my alopecia) due to the not stable health of my beautiful, wonderful older brother. My alopecia first started after my first traumatic incident when he had fainted, back in January 2013. Although he had been sick his whole life due to congenital heart defects, he managed to live a wonderful, full, loving and amazing life. The last year was particularly hard on him, and in turn, was hard on me because all I wanted to do was take away his pain. He passed mid March 2014, but he is no longer in pain, and I know he is very happy now :-)

Literally a week after he passed, I started to grow hair on a very stubborn temple patch. My brother always felt so bad about my alopecia, and I told him no, don't feel bad. There are way more important things for us to worry about and feel bad about, and even then, we should just try to be happy. And now, almost 7 weeks since his passing, most of my patches have new hair growth. My hair loss has slowed down by a lot. I still have a few large stubborn patches, and I still do have hair loss... but I definitely have a lot of growth.

Do you think there is any explanation for this? I know it can't be healthy eating and taking care of myself, because for a good month, even 5 weeks, I didn't take any of my vitamins, I didn't wash my hair often, generally didn't eat... so basically I was a wreck version of myself. Maybe because I don't have my brother to worry over and take care of? But if that's the case, I feel so guilty. 

Anyway, not sure there is much to respond to, but was wondering if anyone has any experience with this? I thought the normal thing to happen was a hair shed, not a hair growth. And frankly, if you have any experience with loss, any words would be awesome.