Aka My Immune System is Attacking My Hair Folks, I promise I'll do a more positive post soon! I have one lined up, but I'm trying to work my way through everything that's causing me to feel the way I'm feeling. When I had my GP appointment when I got signed off I was also diagnosed with alopecia areata. This is where hair falls out in patches on the scalp (it can also affect your beard if you're of the beardy persuasion). There are two other types - alopecia totalis, which affects the whole scalp, and alopecia universalis which affects the entire body. According to my in-depth research (*cough* Wikipedia *cough*) alopecia is an autoimmune disease where the body attacks hair follices in that particular area (in this case, the back of my head on the left hand side). Specifically, T-cell lymphocytes cluster around the affected hair follicles causing inflammation and hair loss. Personally I think anything with 'T-cell' in it sounds like something out of Resi...