s.a.f said:
ginald said:
saturnsc2 said:
well my hair started to thin out in my early 20's. by 30 i was totaly bald on top & it just killed me. i feel i missed out on a lot of my youth because of this & nobody understands what i went through. as hair loss sufferers. nobody knows our pain other than us, nor can they understand it. so easy for an outsider to make comments about how it shouldn't matter isn't it? even after all the surgery i feel a part of me died never to return. i just have to pick up the broken pieces & move forward....
it amazes me to see that a man in his thirties (maybe older) who's been bald for some time now is still deeply affected by it.
is it really that traumatic an episode to go through?
well....it was for me also so i guess i'm far from being odd in that respect.
still hate it now, 20 years on!
Man this is depressing,
reading these posts makes me wonder if I'm going to be 40/50+ and still having trouble coming to terms with the impact of hairloss.
well that's up to you. in my case i was always made fun of because of that. hell even my own mom would call my father "baldy" when they would argue. i guess if somebody tells you something enough over & over again you start to believe it. i was always "taught" that being bald is undesirable, ugly, makes ya look old, ect., so it's no surprise that i despise the look even later in life. i got the transplants, & if i didn't i would have that bozo the clown look & i don't know if i could live like that. too embarrassing for me to cope with. i know being bald or having hair loss isn't any of our faults, & always wondered why we are treated like it is our faults. people would always say things to me like "wow, your hair is thinning" why did you take after your father" i mean, o.k. so i'm losing my god damn hair! what the hell am i supposed to do? anyway, i guess that's one of the reasons i got the surgery as i always felt pressure to look my best, & their remarks didn't help at all. i know having hair loss isn't something we should be apologetic for, but people make you feel that way. i would never tell an overweight person they are fat, ect. i wish people would wouldn't make fun of people with hairloss. i bet if people never made fun of each other, sites like this wouldn't exist, nor would insecurity & everybody would be happy, but NO! i guess i'm too naive to think that could ever happen in this world....