Daily Mail: Baldness Article

[massa]

I don't normally care too much about these articles but the spread of mis-information on this really just p!ssed me off. The media outlets really have a duty to speak the truth and educate people yet they're spreading bullsh!t about scalp cooling, lasers, stress, caffeine shampoos and vitamins! Yeah like we haven't tried that before.

Its no wonder the general public are so mis-informed about hair loss and think hair loss sufferers must have a poor diet and not be getting much sleep !!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...reatments-including-used-Hollywood-stars.html

 

[hellouser]

DailyMail is pure trash. The writers have no desire to report anything actually beneficial to readers.... the articles are only written to get clicks and advertisement impressions. That's it.

 

[shookwun]

Dailymail is lcomparable to Yahoo answers when it comes to credibility.

 

[Primo]

And of course, the best rated comment is:

....'Going bald? Shave it all off.'....

Yeah right, and after that, make sure to mock that very same person you gave that advice to for being bald.

Really couldn't agree more with this. Quoted for 100% TRUTH.

Anyone who's struggled with genuine hairloss and tried to shave their head must surely know this pain.

Finally reaching some kind of level of self-acceptance, shaving your head and showing some balls and courage to live with your condition (a beautiful thing right?)... only then to be mocked, ridiculed and derided, even by members of your own family and those closest to you.

Zero empathy, Zero sympathy, Zero understanding. Doesn't matter how unshakeable, confident and positive you are (I like to think I am 90% of time in public) when your own family practically turn on you and tell you how s**t and ugly you look with a shaved head it really crushes you.

Sure, getting dirty looks and the occasional public jokes from random strangers is bad, but I expected that and knew it was coming, but not from my own f**king family, for me this lack of empathy from those closest to you is by far and away the worst aspect of baldness, which totally crushed my confidence and self-esteem.

Their behaviour and attitude towards me completely validated EVERYTHING that is said on this forum with regards to social stigma and baldness. You can't really appreciate it, until you've lived it as a shaved nw4+ ... patronising as I know that sounds, it is unfortunately true.

Before I reached that point, I always knew the social stigma was going to be bad, just not THAT bad. Nothing prepares you for your own, otherwise very loving family, showing such a complete lack of understanding or empathy. It was mindblowing.

Unless you are that 5% guy with fantastic headshape, model jawline and facial features, it's very likely you too will struggle with the shaved look.

Also what these "just shave it bro" tards don't get is that (in western europe at least) the shaved look is COMPLETELY INCOMPATIBLE with today's trends and hair styles. We're not living in the early 00s anymore when Beckham, Statham, Vin Diesel and every guy on the street was shaving their heads. Thesedays, every guy is walking around with Bieber or One Direction hair stylesm, which basically flaunt the fact that they're full heads to the max and make bald shaved head guys stick out even more.

Name me one male hearthrob, who has broken through THIS decade, who sports a shaved bald head??? I mean bald. not a nw1 shadow... there just aren't any, the look is completely off trend and decades out of fashion, which only makes the socail stigma worse and leads casual gawkers to believe you're either a mental patient/paedo/sex offender/serial killer/far right, violent, racist, unemployed thug... take your pick?... It's simply not an option for this current generation, unless you have a headshape like Freddy Ljungberg.

 

[bilboswaggins]

Before I reached that point, I always knew the social stigma was going to be bad, just not THAT bad. Nothing prepares you for your own, otherwise very loving family, showing such a complete lack of understanding or empathy. It was mindblowing.

yep this sucks
when I first mentioned my hairloss to my mom she just gave me the whole "who cares? there are kids in africa starving!" speech
I dont know how she would react when she finds out im now depressed and antisocial because of this crap

 

[massa]

yep this sucks
when I first mentioned my hairloss to my mom she just gave me the whole "who cares? there are kids in africa starving!" speech
I dont know how she would react when she finds out im now depressed and antisocial because of this crap

Yeah I really want to explain my situation to my parents but I don't know how to approach it. I'm sure they are aware of my problem as I always go out with hats and lots of rogaine and toppik cans in the bathroom. I just couldn't make them understand how I feel inside, how im 24 and look to the future with dread not hope its gut wrenching. They have no idea I cant even sleep at night without taking zopiclone as my hair is all I think about now, its like a 24/7 obsession. Maybe they'll understand and help fund a transplant in the future... I can only hope

 

[hellouser]

I don't normally care too much about these articles but the spread of mis-information on this really just p!ssed me off. The media outlets really have a duty to speak the truth and educate people yet they're spreading bullsh!t about scalp cooling, lasers, stress, caffeine shampoos and vitamins! Yeah like we haven't tried that before.

Its no wonder the general public are so mis-informed about hair loss and think hair loss sufferers must have a poor diet and not be getting much sleep !!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...reatments-including-used-Hollywood-stars.html

The article was written by an idiot that goes by the name of 'Dr.' Sarah Brewer. Send her your 2 cents here:

Twitter: www.twitter.com/drsarahb
Email: drsarah@medilance.com

I can't believe a 'doctor' would write such bullsh!t.

 

[doublebatman]

The article was written by an idiot that goes by the name of 'Dr.' Sarah Brewer. Send her your 2 cents here:

Twitter: www.twitter.com/drsarahb
Email: drsarah@medilance.com

I can't believe a 'doctor' would write such bullsh!t.

I initially thought she'd undergone a doctorate in nutrition or some other garbage, but no, she's a qualified MD. MDs usually aren't so quick to print their name next to trash

 

[blackg]

Family

Really couldn't agree more with this. Quoted for 100% TRUTH.

Anyone who's struggled with genuine hairloss and tried to shave their head must surely know this pain.

Finally reaching some kind of level of self-acceptance, shaving your head and showing some balls and courage to live with your condition (a beautiful thing right?)... only then to be mocked, ridiculed and derided, even by members of your own family and those closest to you.

Zero empathy, Zero sympathy, Zero understanding. Doesn't matter how unshakeable, confident and positive you are (I like to think I am 90% of time in public) when your own family practically turn on you and tell you how s**t and ugly you look with a shaved head it really crushes you.

Sure, getting dirty looks and the occasional public jokes from random strangers is bad, but I expected that and knew it was coming, but not from my own f**king family, for me this lack of empathy from those closest to you is by far and away the worst aspect of baldness, which totally crushed my confidence and self-esteem.

Their behaviour and attitude towards me completely validated EVERYTHING that is said on this forum with regards to social stigma and baldness. You can't really appreciate it, until you've lived it as a shaved nw4+ ... patronising as I know that sounds, it is unfortunately true.

Before I reached that point, I always knew the social stigma was going to be bad, just not THAT bad. Nothing prepares you for your own, otherwise very loving family, showing such a complete lack of understanding or empathy. It was mindblowing.

Unless you are that 5% guy with fantastic headshape, model jawline and facial features, it's very likely you too will struggle with the shaved look.

Also what these "just shave it bro" tards don't get is that (in western europe at least) the shaved look is COMPLETELY INCOMPATIBLE with today's trends and hair styles. We're not living in the early 00s anymore when Beckham, Statham, Vin Diesel and every guy on the street was shaving their heads. Thesedays, every guy is walking around with Bieber or One Direction hair stylesm, which basically flaunt the fact that they're full heads to the max and make bald shaved head guys stick out even more.

Name me one male hearthrob, who has broken through THIS decade, who sports a shaved bald head??? I mean bald. not a nw1 shadow... there just aren't any, the look is completely off trend and decades out of fashion, which only makes the socail stigma worse and leads casual gawkers to believe you're either a mental patient/paedo/sex offender/serial killer/far right, violent, racist, unemployed thug... take your pick?... It's simply not an option for this current generation, unless you have a headshape like Freddy Ljungberg.

Totally!!!! The truth right here! When your family look at you with disappointment, and a thinly disguised look of disgust....then feel the need to shine the spotlight on the fact that you are committing the social crime of hair loss...it really is a kick in the guts for any man.

Especially after you've convinced yourself that if you 'just except hair loss and not try to hide it anymore', then the world will most likely respect you for it.
WRONG, motherfuqker!!!!!
And to cop it from FAMILY of all people!!! Makes me wanna go mental!!!

 

[Chromio]

My family has no clue how much balding has affected me. My mom just sees the rogaine cans and the other hair crap I bought and yells at me saying that none of it is helping, but only contributing to my hair loss. My pops is a hat prisoner who just tells me to get over it.

Worst part is when my mother compares me to my uncle, "he's bald and he makes lots of money." "Why don't you be more like him." I don't know maybe because I want to be me. I wanted to live my life the way I've always dreamt it would be. Instead everything just stopped now because of my hair loss. And my family just thinks I'm some lazy bum who doesn't want to better myself. Well I say go fvck urself a fam.

 

[GoldenMane]

I guess I'm lucky. My mam knows how important my hair is to my self image and mental wellbeing. Ironically when I was younger we used to fight a lot because I refused to cut my hair for job interviews. When I did and got depressed I think she began to understand. She knows I'm prone to depression too, and she probably knows I inherited the balding in 20s gene from her.

She basically said that she'll do whatever she can to help and if I need money for a hair transplant, it's there. Probably worried I'll do myself in if I go bald (I probably would) so knows this is literally life and death.

She's notably less understanding about my dad, whose anterior region is now just an isolated forelock. He often gets very short buzzcuts and she tells him his hair is too short. Well duh, what's he supposed to do, grow it out?

 

[hellouser]

Worst part is when my mother compares me to my uncle, "he's bald and he makes lots of money." "Why don't you be more like him."

Because it aint the fucking 60s anymore. It's 2015, misandry took over misogyny, hypergamy is celebrated and women are superficial like hell.

Baldness doesn't get respected today and nobody gives a FUCK about old timers anyway.

 

[RoyD]

I guess I'm lucky. My mam knows how important my hair is to my self image and mental wellbeing. Ironically when I was younger we used to fight a lot because I refused to cut my hair for job interviews. When I did and got depressed I think she began to understand. She knows I'm prone to depression too, and she probably knows I inherited the balding in 20s gene from her.

She basically said that she'll do whatever she can to help and if I need money for a hair transplant, it's there. Probably worried I'll do myself in if I go bald (I probably would) so knows this is literally life and death.

She's notably less understanding about my dad, whose anterior region is now just an isolated forelock. He often gets very short buzzcuts and she tells him his hair is too short. Well duh, what's he supposed to do, grow it out?

I was actually thinking about the hair transplant thing today and thought that on a slight possibility that I'd ever have a kid and it was a boy I'd probably start a hair transplant fund for him just in case. I'm sure he'd be very damn thankful for it if he were to have male pattern baldness. And if he didn't I'd just use the money in the fund to get myself one. LOL.

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I initially thought she'd undergone a doctorate in nutrition or some other garbage, but no, she's a qualified MD. MDs usually aren't so quick to print their name next to trash

Haven't you heard of Dr. Oz? That bastard has promoted spiritual healing, magic and what not.

 

[Bottlecap]

My family has no clue how much balding has affected me. My mom just sees the rogaine cans and the other hair crap I bought and yells at me saying that none of it is helping, but only contributing to my hair loss. My pops is a hat prisoner who just tells me to get over it.

Worst part is when my mother compares me to my uncle, "he's bald and he makes lots of money." "Why don't you be more like him." I don't know maybe because I want to be me. I wanted to live my life the way I've always dreamt it would be. Instead everything just stopped now because of my hair loss. And my family just thinks I'm some lazy bum who doesn't want to better myself. Well I say go fvck urself a fam.

It's crazy how people say it's no big deal. I don't understand why people think it's not a big deal. When I opened up to my Dad how much hairloss was affecting me, other than being in denial and saying I'm not balding even so I'm quite clearly in Norwood 3 territory, he just said i'm overreacting and that loads of people go bald, or to think of what others have to put up with .etc, same old ****. He's 60 years old and has a Norwood2 hairline with a little bald patch on his crown, he still has a ****ing bottle of Alpecin in the shower!!

 

[RoyD]

btw I left her a tweet and within a few hours she began following me lol.