Sadly, it does happen to some young women and men. The guys of course have their macho armor to fall back on. Young ladies really have a very rough time of it. Friends can be cruel and some of them secretly gloating over your misfortune can really cut to the quick. If you are plagued with questions about what to do, please keep reading to find some useful information. Maybe you have just had the unwelcome experience of having your perfect world shattered by finding a mass of hair on your pillow! You feel your head immediately, but the hair appears to be all there. Over the next week, more of the same happens with increasing frequency. Your heart races and you begin imagining yourself bald, why you are probably picturing yourself locked away like Rapunzel in the children's fable. In trying to make light of the situation one cannot avoid the scary reality that young women are losing their hair. Why is this happening to me is probably the universal question all young women experiencing hair loss are asking. We want to discuss why hair loss happens in young women. But before we do, let's cover something positive and how to treat hair loss in young women. Treatment is generally decided based on the cause of the problem. For example, a nutritional deficiency can be corrected by making changes to the diet and taking a vitamin supplement to provide the missing nutrients.