Personal Narrative: My Fear Of Under Classical Conditioning

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I have a fear of losing my hair, for any sort of cause. It could be chemical like chemo or thyroid issues or anything of the sort. This fear is extreme to the point that I use no less than three conditioners each time I wash my hair, and follow several other odd routines to maintain my hair. I am not sure where this is rooted from. Bad hair as a child, watching my aunt lose her hair through chemo for breast cancer, or other family members have very thin hair due to thyroid issues.
I’m filing this one under classical conditioning.
The NS (neutral stimulus) is my hair,
US (unconditioned stimulus) is hair loss,
UR (unconditioned response) fear and sadness,
CS (conditioned stimulus) is again hair/hair loss, and the
CR (conditioned

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