Annoying things people say about hair loss.

[Funkymonk1]

"It's only hair, get over it." This is nearly always said by people with a full head of hair. This is pure ignorance and totally insensitive. Come back to me if/when you lose your hair and tell me it's only hair otherwise don't spout opinions about things you know nothing about!

"Hair loss is worse for someone who is 18 then someone in their 30s or 40s." As a guy of 36 I can tell you that this simply isn't true (at least not for a lot of people). The loss of confidence, anxiety, impact it has on your personality and social life ect is exactly the same.

"Worrying about hair loss is pure vanity." Ok, maybe ther's a bit of vanity there with some of us but with the vast majority of people it's insecurity. Vanity is admiring yourself in the mirror every 5 minuets and being in love with how gorgeous you are but hair loss causes loss of confidence, self loathing even. That is nothing to do with vanity and you only have to look at these very boards to see that.

 

[blackg]

Also what annoys me is the total ignorance out there, with regard to the causes of hair loss.
Y'all know the theories: Your wear your hat too much.
Your diet is to blame.
Your too stressed. Hell, even the old "Masturbation can cause it." line gets trotted out.
Fools, who say this stuff.

 

[Hairloss23]

How can people not think it is worse when your younger. You only have a finite number of years in life. The more you spend bald or fighting baldness = one more thing to worry about for more of your life. And don't say other problems take over, there's no such thing as mo' hair mo' problems.

 

[big_head]

Also what annoys me is the total ignorance out there, with regard to the causes of hair loss.
Y'all know the theories: Your wear your hat too much.
Your diet is to blame.
Your too stressed. Hell, even the old "Masturbation can cause it." line gets trotted out.
Fools, who say this stuff.

When i first started losing my hair years ago, my mother claimed it was probably because I was always "messing" with it, as in touching it.

She tried to suggest I was going bald because I was...touching my hair. My father, to this day, still denies I am balding any time I point it out. I point right at the recession and the thinning. He is in denial about my hairloss more than me.

 

[EvilLocks]

36? Please, you can't even compare your situation with mine. I started losing hair (aggressively) when I was still in high school!

I was nowhere in life, I had never touched a woman, no degree, no experience, nothing. I lost my hair before my life had even begun.

Talk about starting with a huge disadvantage for every area of my life. At 36, if you did not live your life as a deadbeat, at least you have already built something.

At 36, you've lived a full youth already, you've got your degrees, you've accumulated a lot of sexual experience, maybe you've even started a family and have a bunch of kids.

Then it's also proven that in the vast majority of cases, the later you start balding, the less aggressive it will be, you can just hop on treatments and have light FUE's here and there, and you'll be set for life.

When you start losing hair at 16, there's a good chance you'll end up with extensive hair loss that will not even be treatable at a point. And there's a good chance that you will have a nightmarish youth.

Losing hair in your 30's and 40's is at least considered normal by most people. It is often expected and once men get into their 50's, balding starts becoming the norm.

So please stop these silly comparisons. Of course it's infinitely worse to start losing your hair at 18 than in your 40's, how can you even dispute that?

You said everything right there. I agree with everything you said so I'm not even going to add more.

 

[shookwun]

It's just hair, brah


Stress


Changing up your diet



From wearing a hat

 

[xetudor]

"Hair loss is worse for someone who is 18 then someone in their 30s or 40s."

It IS worse. Even if the torment may be the same, you at least had your youth to enjoy.

 

[blackg]

As for another annoying comment: "Your obsessed with hair, brah!!"

 

[davesmith420]

"There are people with things a lot worse than hair loss, stop being a baby!"


​I know that statement is true, but losing your hair in your 20s is pretty ****ty....

 

[shookwun]

"Hair loss is worse for someone who is 18 then someone in their 30s or 40s."

It IS worse. Even if the torment may be the same, you at least had your youth to enjoy.

Yup. it puts a major crutch on you emotionally, physically, and psychologically. A crucial part of growing up is absorbing knowledge hands on, and learning from others as a young teenager, and adolescent.

it rele messed you up relationship wise. At this age you should be forming relationships, figuring our your own bodily chemistry, but are stripped of that because of the discimrination, and hatred associated with pre mature hair loss.


Carrer prospects, dating , and even your social life is hit hard. Teens are brutal, and have low inhibtiion unlike adults who don't blurt how they actually feel under social pressure.


Exodus is a prime example of this. No pun intended

 

[Agustin Araujo]

Here are more annoying things people will say when losing hair due to genetic baldness:

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"Losing your hair? That's because you need to take better care of your hair, stop being so lazy about it!"

"You're losing your hair because you have a poor diet. Eat better, eat healthier!"

"You don't take good enough care of yourself, that's why you're losing your hair!"

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I have been told similar things like this before, and was always frustrating.

 

[Funkymonk1]

36? Please, you can't even compare your situation with mine. I started losing hair (aggressively) when I was still in high school!

I was nowhere in life, I had never touched a woman, no degree, no experience, nothing. I lost my hair before my life had even begun.

Talk about starting with a huge disadvantage for every area of my life. At 36, if you did not live your life as a deadbeat, at least you have already built something.

At 36, you've lived a full youth already, you've got your degrees, you've accumulated a lot of sexual experience, maybe you've even started a family and have a bunch of kids.

Then it's also proven that in the vast majority of cases, the later you start balding, the less aggressive it will be, you can just hop on treatments and have light FUE's here and there, and you'll be set for life.

When you start losing hair at 16, there's a good chance you'll end up with extensive hair loss that will not even be treatable at a point. And there's a good chance that you will have a nightmarish youth.

Losing hair in your 30's and 40's is at least considered normal by most people. It is often expected and once men get into their 50's, balding starts becoming the norm.

So please stop these silly comparisons. Of course it's infinitely worse to start losing your hair at 18 than in your 40's, how can you even dispute that?

Hold your horses pal! I wasn't saying there weren't certain differences between losing your hair at 18 then in your 30's I was saying that just because you lose your hair in you 30's doesn't mean that the emotional impact can't be as bad. I didn't start losing my hair until my 30's but I've still suffered from depression, insomnia and loss of confidence because of it. This is why it annoys me when people say it can't be as bad because that just trivialises everything that I've been though.

 

[oye_rg]

Agree with points 1 and 3. Disagree with point #2 completely... and I am 38.

Hairloss affects me greatly but nowhere as it would have had I been in my late teens or 20's.

 

[hellouser]

"Worrying about hair loss is pure vanity." Ok, maybe ther's a bit of vanity there with some of us but with the vast majority of people it's insecurity. Vanity is admiring yourself in the mirror every 5 minuets and being in love with how gorgeous you are but hair loss causes loss of confidence, self loathing even. That is nothing to do with vanity and you only have to look at these very boards to see that.

But it isn't vain to mock, insult, humiliate or reject a bald man.... apparently.

 

[Eren]

Hold your horses pal! I wasn't saying there weren't certain differences between losing your hair at 18 then in your 30's I was saying that just because you lose your hair in you 30's doesn't mean that the emotional impact can't be as bad. I didn't start losing my hair until my 30's but I've still suffered from depression, insomnia and loss of confidence because of it. This is why it annoys me when people say it can't be as bad because that just trivialises everything that I've been though.

This suffering would be that much worse if it happens at 18 compared to when it happens in your 30s.

Also, hair loss in your 30s, generally, has a much slower pace than when it begins in your late teens.

Basically, you're just saying that hair loss sucks at every age (duh!), even at 60 I would have cared for losing hair.

 

[g.i joey]

knowing i made it through my 20's (prime) with a full head of hair is enough for me, yes balding sucks at any age, but NOONE could relate it to balding in late teens, early 20's. ITS JUST NOT SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE, and thats where we get all these problems we have, because society tells us in your 20's you should have hair.

 

[blackg]

But it isn't vain to mock, insult, humiliate or reject a bald man.... apparently.

Hahah..I know!! Anyone who points out your hair loss is VAIN, surely.

 

[uncomfortable man]

Its not so much what people say with their mouths but what they say with their eyes and facial expressions in response to my diminished appearance that sends me into a rage.

 

[big_head]

It's just hair, brah

Next time someone says that, hand them some clippers and tell them to shave their entire head right then and there.

If they protest tell them "It's just hair bro".

 

[Funkymonk1]

This suffering would be that much worse if it happens at 18 compared to when it happens in your 30s.

Also, hair loss in your 30s, generally, has a much slower pace than when it begins in your late teens.

Basically, you're just saying that hair loss sucks at every age (duh!), even at 60 I would have cared for losing hair.

Yeah but you don't know that. You don't know me. No offence but this is exactly what annoys me. People like you and Fred are generalising or perhaps only looking at it from your own standpoint. You're and not seeing the individual. I've been suicidal at times and suffered from extreme insomnia, my whole personality has changed. How could I have suffered much worse emotionally?
You're basically saying that it's impossible for a guy who loses his hair in his 30's to suffer emotionally as an 18 year old. Utter rubbish!