Before being diagnosed with Alopecia i had never heard of it, so now I'm sitting here wondering how many people actually know about Alopecia and what exactly it is. I have noticed that there are quite a few people in the world with Alopecia. so if there is quite a few, why is it not very well known about. I was told by my doctor that mine is caused from stress, if i had been told stressing a lot would cause my hair to fall out i most likely would have prevented myself from stressing as much as possible. I find it very difficult at times as no-one else in my life knows what it's like to have Alopecia, if only there was a support group in my area but so far i;ve had no luck in finding any let alone one. My goal from now on is to make people more aware of Alopecia.