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Hi Everyone,
I'm really glad to be here. I've been dealing with this hair loss for 2 or 3 years, and most people I've mentioned it to don't seem to care.
My hair fell out suddenly one night after a very stressful event, and I woke up the next day to see that two quarter sized patches of hair at the widow's peaks had totally fallen out, and that in addition to sudden general thinning, there were also dozens and dozens of pea sized spots all over the crown of my head where the hair had just fallen out.
I was totally traumatized, and basically had a nervous breakdown over it. I had just been through a number of family tragedies, and to then to have my hair suddenly fall out, literally overnight, shook me to my very foundation.
First I got very angry, and determined to regrow it, but as time passed, and the realization set in that my hair was not growing back quickly (and might never), I got very depressed, and eventually suicidal.
Determined to go down fighting, I went and read every book at the library I could about hair loss, hoping to find a cure. I finally settled on taking Saw Palmetto extract, combined with a product called HairX by Solaray. Within a month, I began to see a few new hairs sprout up.
But the depression and turmoil over this situation made me very unstable, and I lost my apartment. From there I bounced around to my mothers house, to a boarding house, and finally to another apartment... the whole time staring into the mirror hundreds of times a day, despondent over what had happened, and searching in vain for any new signs of regrowth.
As a result of this, my ability to face people or go out in public has been rendered almost non-existent, and I began to isolate myself from the world.
As hopelessness set in, I fell into a very deep depression. I began to sleep 16 hours a day, and did that for a year or so. I've been battling this depression and oversleeping phenomenon since, only coming out of it recently when I realized I was headed for suicide or a mental hospital.
People who have not been through this kind of assault on their self-image cannot possibly understand the devastation wrought by hair loss. Hair is viewed by people as one of the primary sexual attractors, and having my hair start falling out has been, for me, almost my complete ruin.
That's why I'm very glad to be here, around other men who can understand this bullshit we have to go through when one of your own body parts just suddenly starts falling out.
To all the people I've met in real life who have dismissed or belittled my concern over my hair loss, and tried to tell me that it's "normal", and that "lots of men lose their hair", my response is:
"Well, if you woke up one day, and your fingernails and toenails had suddenly fallen out, do you think you would be concerned or alarmed?"
That is how I look at it... hair is a part of my body, and when a part of my body just falls off, something is radically wrong, and I am determined to figure out what it is, and how to fix it.
That's all I can really say for now. I'm sure many others here can sympathize with the amount of confusion, pain and self-doubt that premature hair loss can cause, so I'm really glad to have found a place where we can discuss these things without being belittled, dismissed or mocked.
It's good to be here with you all.
Erik D.
I'm really glad to be here. I've been dealing with this hair loss for 2 or 3 years, and most people I've mentioned it to don't seem to care.
My hair fell out suddenly one night after a very stressful event, and I woke up the next day to see that two quarter sized patches of hair at the widow's peaks had totally fallen out, and that in addition to sudden general thinning, there were also dozens and dozens of pea sized spots all over the crown of my head where the hair had just fallen out.
I was totally traumatized, and basically had a nervous breakdown over it. I had just been through a number of family tragedies, and to then to have my hair suddenly fall out, literally overnight, shook me to my very foundation.
First I got very angry, and determined to regrow it, but as time passed, and the realization set in that my hair was not growing back quickly (and might never), I got very depressed, and eventually suicidal.
Determined to go down fighting, I went and read every book at the library I could about hair loss, hoping to find a cure. I finally settled on taking Saw Palmetto extract, combined with a product called HairX by Solaray. Within a month, I began to see a few new hairs sprout up.
But the depression and turmoil over this situation made me very unstable, and I lost my apartment. From there I bounced around to my mothers house, to a boarding house, and finally to another apartment... the whole time staring into the mirror hundreds of times a day, despondent over what had happened, and searching in vain for any new signs of regrowth.
As a result of this, my ability to face people or go out in public has been rendered almost non-existent, and I began to isolate myself from the world.
As hopelessness set in, I fell into a very deep depression. I began to sleep 16 hours a day, and did that for a year or so. I've been battling this depression and oversleeping phenomenon since, only coming out of it recently when I realized I was headed for suicide or a mental hospital.
People who have not been through this kind of assault on their self-image cannot possibly understand the devastation wrought by hair loss. Hair is viewed by people as one of the primary sexual attractors, and having my hair start falling out has been, for me, almost my complete ruin.
That's why I'm very glad to be here, around other men who can understand this bullshit we have to go through when one of your own body parts just suddenly starts falling out.
To all the people I've met in real life who have dismissed or belittled my concern over my hair loss, and tried to tell me that it's "normal", and that "lots of men lose their hair", my response is:
"Well, if you woke up one day, and your fingernails and toenails had suddenly fallen out, do you think you would be concerned or alarmed?"
That is how I look at it... hair is a part of my body, and when a part of my body just falls off, something is radically wrong, and I am determined to figure out what it is, and how to fix it.
That's all I can really say for now. I'm sure many others here can sympathize with the amount of confusion, pain and self-doubt that premature hair loss can cause, so I'm really glad to have found a place where we can discuss these things without being belittled, dismissed or mocked.
It's good to be here with you all.
Erik D.
