Can Bad Emotions Trigger Vitiligo?

When we studied the causes of vitiligo, we found that there is a close relationship between emotions and vitiligo. Most patients are worried and pessimistic before and after the onset of the disease, resulting in restlessness, sleepless nights, or disturbing dreams when sleeping. To a certain extent, it affects the work, study, and even the love of young men and women, and some people also have the idea of living lightly because of it. These kinds of factors caused by depression due to disease have an impact on health and melanin metabolism, especially more obvious in women, the relevant data show that 74% of adult women suffering from vitiligo have an obvious Traditional Chinese Medicine phenomenon of “stagnation of liver qi”, manifested in different degrees of dysmenorrhea, menstrual chest and abdominal distension, breast lumps, and menstrual irregularities, etc.

So what is the specific relationship between bad emotions and vitiligo, the following passage is a brief analysis of it.

(1) Indirect causes. There are many factors that induce vitiligo etiology, and then coupled with the bad emotional state, long-term in the bad emotional state induced vitiligo chances are relatively large, is also to let the vitiligo patient condition to get spread, thus the vitiligo patient's condition in into very serious trouble.

(2) Emotional changes. In the course of the treatment of vitiligo, the study of the causes of vitiligo found that, in fact, emotional changes for the onset of vitiligo have a very important connection. The majority of vitiligo patients will exist in depressed, pessimistic bad emotional states, these emotional states on the patient's work, study, social, and many other aspects have caused a very serious impact, and even patients will have the idea of light life.

(3) Bad emotions cause women to be more vulnerable to vitiligo. The bad emotional state is especially harmful to female vitiligo patients. Because of the nervous mood, the body will secrete excess adrenaline to cope with the emergency, and adrenaline is transformed by tyrosinase, adrenaline synthesis, secretion of too much is bound to lose of tyrosine, which affects both the synthesis of melanin, and is not conducive to the treatment of white patches.