Since around the 8th grade I've had problems with my hair. I developed trichotillomania around this time and since then it had gotten progressively worse until I more or less manned up and overcame it. I still have my bouts with hair pulling every now and again, but that is besides the point I'm raising here. Coming into my freshman year of college, my hair was lightly thinning in the crown area and I was slowly developing a bald spot on the top. I tried tea-tree shampoos, Nioxin, coal-tar shampoo, T/Gel, etc. thinking it was a fungus causing my hair loss; but to no avail, nothing seemed to work. In fact, after I quit using these specialty shampoos, the hair loss continued and in some sense worsened. Fast forward to now, my junior year of school, I'm 20 years old (turning 21 in three months), and I'm having to deal with an extremely aggressive case of thinning hair.
Due to the thinning hair my self esteem has taken a sledgehammer blow to the face. In high school, I was THAT guy. I was the guy that would take the initiative, I'd introduce myself on a whim, I'd make everyone laugh, etc. Now, I've been reduced to a mere shell and shadow of my old self. I sit in the back of the class hunched over, wearing a hood or a hat majority of the time, and am extremely reclusive/socially anxious from talking to people. Not to mention my love life has more or less been hit or miss the past three years, with my last serious relationship ending in a tragedy similar to the magnitude of the Rape of Nanking. Because of this I'm now extremely introverted, but yet I yearn for that interaction I've grown up used to.
Since I started noting my hairloss (around the same time I got over trichotillomania, 18) I've always mentally disputed that I wasn't losing my hair and it was just stress/follicles waiting to regrow as I had been pulling them out. After three years of waiting I've grown impatient, and I'm doing something about it. This upcoming Monday, February 8, 2010, I have an appointment with a dermatologist regarding some skin spots I've developed and my balding self. I've attached some pictures for some advice/insight, but I know my odds of success are pretty bleak. Besides going to the doctor, I'm going to the gym 5 days a week and am currently on a massive weight loss regimen.
As for results, like I said, I realize I'm pretty far gone and my results are most likely looking pretty bleak...but that doesn't mean I won't hold my spirits high and follow whatever my doctor tells me. I'm willing to put all of my trust in his expert opinion, and if his opinion is doubtful, then I'll consider other options. Speaking of, I'm contemplating on just buzzing my hair down to about what Jason Statham has but I'm scared about what I will look like. I don't know if I have the facial/bone structure necessary to pull off a buzz. I've always had thick hair (until recently), and I'm not sure if I could go through with it knowing I'm going to look AWFUL.
And here's a recent front shot of me to show my hair line.
Due to the thinning hair my self esteem has taken a sledgehammer blow to the face. In high school, I was THAT guy. I was the guy that would take the initiative, I'd introduce myself on a whim, I'd make everyone laugh, etc. Now, I've been reduced to a mere shell and shadow of my old self. I sit in the back of the class hunched over, wearing a hood or a hat majority of the time, and am extremely reclusive/socially anxious from talking to people. Not to mention my love life has more or less been hit or miss the past three years, with my last serious relationship ending in a tragedy similar to the magnitude of the Rape of Nanking. Because of this I'm now extremely introverted, but yet I yearn for that interaction I've grown up used to.
Since I started noting my hairloss (around the same time I got over trichotillomania, 18) I've always mentally disputed that I wasn't losing my hair and it was just stress/follicles waiting to regrow as I had been pulling them out. After three years of waiting I've grown impatient, and I'm doing something about it. This upcoming Monday, February 8, 2010, I have an appointment with a dermatologist regarding some skin spots I've developed and my balding self. I've attached some pictures for some advice/insight, but I know my odds of success are pretty bleak. Besides going to the doctor, I'm going to the gym 5 days a week and am currently on a massive weight loss regimen.
As for results, like I said, I realize I'm pretty far gone and my results are most likely looking pretty bleak...but that doesn't mean I won't hold my spirits high and follow whatever my doctor tells me. I'm willing to put all of my trust in his expert opinion, and if his opinion is doubtful, then I'll consider other options. Speaking of, I'm contemplating on just buzzing my hair down to about what Jason Statham has but I'm scared about what I will look like. I don't know if I have the facial/bone structure necessary to pull off a buzz. I've always had thick hair (until recently), and I'm not sure if I could go through with it knowing I'm going to look AWFUL.
And here's a recent front shot of me to show my hair line.
