Hairloss certainly has changed my personality. Before all this I was extremely outgoing, super happy, and energetic all the time, and just wanted to party hard and have a good time. Like most here, I became more spiteful and angry with life in general. I stopped going out, stopped dating, stopped networking with friends, and became withdrawn from my family. I went through that for 6monthes straight. I remembered when hairloss first affected me, I would try to avoid topics involving hair, or even comment on friends new hairstyles cause I felt uneasy about it, now I just bring it up without thinking about it. I stopped working out, I became very lazy, and started smoking, and drinking more. I don't know exactly what happened but I've gotten alot better lately about how I feel about myself in general, and having great friends were key to my mental well being. I got back into the gym and intensified my weighting training and started doing cardio, and play alot of squash with my friends and I've gotten more fit then Ive ever been before, and that has really boosted my confidence. Then girls started to approach me for the first time in awhile, and I started dating. I recently quit smoking cold turkey 14 days ago, and cut back my drinking alot to only one evening a week, and only wine. I think the best thing i've done was quit smoking cause I feel sooooo much better now, I have lost my anxiety, my stamina at the gym(and in bed lol) has improved ALOT, and can actually think happy thoughts
The most important thing I think is to keep busy, build-up our self-worth and confidence by trying new things, activities, new music, read different literature, and when I'm at home alone all sad and depressed, I would call up good friends and go out and have brunch or dinner or something just to avoid being alone. lol, i got so sad once, I started going to the symphony lately and it's become my new passion, and before I went I never listened to classical, just sort of jumped into it.
When I read stories here about how upset or depressed people are it's really discouraging to me so I just avoid coming on here all the time like I used to, but I like to come back time to time and see what's up and thats about it. Anyways, lol, thats how hairloss changed my personality in a nutshell! I wrote out a much longer message, but It's way too long and detailed! keep ur chin up, cause hairloss is definitely not the worst thing to happen to person!