damndoser-s story - (A man with OCD about baldness)

damndoser

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Hello...

Let me introduce myself. I am an 18 year old boy who is slowly growing into a man and starting to live life on my own standards. I have loving parents who treat me very well and I give them great thanks for supporting me throughout my life time.

Regarding about my problem. I am not too sure if I am experiencing hairloss from the complimation of stress [hostility - OCD] or from my mother's genitics.

My genetics is very much intertwined with my mother's and father's genes. But what concerns me the most is that, my mother's father is bald. While on the other hand, my father has a strong genes of thick coated head of hair. I pretty much have all my dad's genetic features: facial, height, and body. Except I am a hairy person. My dad's side is hairless from body and legs. While my mother's side is hairy (her brothers). This concerns me, because I have all my dads attributes, but the only thing that I have from my mom is the hairyness which concludes to baldness in the head?

The other problem I have is that I have developed Obsessive Complusive Disorder (OCD) in baldness. I always check my hairline and I freak when I do see particular baldness in people. The reason why I have OCD is due to my unhealthly lifestyle and the stress throughout five years. I have been a very paranoid kid when I was 7 - 10 years old and still stressing for no reason. I am pretty much a unhealthly kid too. I am taking a psychology class, so I know somethings about my actions and to why I could be losing hair?

I have also been playing hockey as a goal tender and my hair is always wet when wearing my mask I we play for 1 - 3 hours without taking my mask off for probably more than 4 - 5 mintues. Which is not a good thing.

I am concerned that when I take a shower look at my hand, I see about 2 - 3 hairs fall off, and when I dry my hair with my towel about, 5 hairs stick on my towel.

I also sit on the computer all day, talk about stressor, this is where I have all my stress put out on, espcially my OCD.

I hate this crap! I am going to see my doctor and hoping she can help me with the problems I am having.

I would like some opinions... if I am experience hairloss geneticly.

I am also experiencing a lot of dandruff, and when I do scratch it, hair comes with it. I triend SelSunBlue for a long while and I discontinued it because it does cause baldness due to some chemicals used in the shampoo.

When my hair is dry and when I look at a mirror and a turn on the light, I can see my scalp shine on some areas of my head, which scares me. I didn't notice this until now. What is going on?

I am noticing a noticeable area where I can see my hair slowly thinning... well on light, that is.

I also have a minor seb dermotits on my face. I use hydrocrotsone now, it's helping a lot.
 

s.a.f

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I would say in my honest opinion its 99% certain that you have inherited the worst characteristic from your mothers genes. (sorry)
 

chewy

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You mention OCD. Have you heard of BDD - Body Dysmorphic Disorder ?

This site may be of help to you.


http://www.bddcentral.com/


Has an excellent forum and a leading CBT therapist regularly posts to help people with obsessional body image concerns.


Hope this helps
 

damndoser

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s.a.f said:
I would say in my honest opinion its 99% certain that you have inherited the worst characteristic from your mothers genes. (sorry)

I know it sounds pretty obvious, but I am going to ask my doctor -> dermatologist about this and ways to divert to the problem.

chewy said:
You mention OCD. Have you heard of BDD - Body Dysmorphic Disorder ?

This site may be of help to you.


http://www.bddcentral.com/


Has an excellent forum and a leading CBT therapist regularly posts to help people with obsessional body image concerns.


Hope this helps

Interesting, thanks! Seems like BDD sounds more specific yet true with my particular disorder. Never really talked to my doctor about it, I know I should.

But the only problem I have is when I see a person who is bald or looking at the mirror. I go nuts!

Well my dad is a slight perfection problem himself and I somewhat sense a little ocd in him, while we were on the plane, he kept flipping his phone numerous times it's odd. It's not one of those flipping phone habbits, but flipping the phone compulsion. I could possibly inheriet it from him.

Here is a link where it explains OCD - baldness: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_Obsessional_OCD

Distinguishing Pure O and stress

It is important to distinguish between the clinical condition of Pure O specifically, or OCD generally, and what is casually called "obsessiveness" by the wider population in relation to stressful events.

For instance, a typical man who discovers he is losing hair may endure a genuine gnawing tension over the prospect of baldness. For a Pure O sufferer, however, the same discovery could spawn an entire new and daunting OCD template: new spikes to dread, new ruminations to endure. Glimpsing a shampoo commercial, spying a stray hair, catching a window reflection -- any number of everyday moments threaten to trigger a lengthy, agonizing rumination.
 
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