Breaking Bald
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I like their honestly though, and I only have about 4,500 grafts available to cover a large area. There is no hope for me, really.
How Do You Even Regain Your Identity?
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I like their honestly though, and I only have about 4,500 grafts available to cover a large area. There is no hope for me, really.
Breaking Bald
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Forever working on it..
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Get on dat finasteride. finasteride or failure.
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you don't assuming that you aren't getting your hair back. even then i'd bet it often permanently makes you a different person
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I struggle with this the most. When my hair is down, I look in the mirror and I do not like this person. This person is NOT me.
Hairloss doesn't match my personality. I don't want to "hit the gym brah" and become a knucklehead. So I hit the toppik hard. No one has ever seen the "real me". Not even my own semi-girlfriend of 10 years. She misses running her fingers through my hair, which I no longer allow her to do, and of which I secretly miss. My concealer regime is extreme but I manage to look very good. PM me if you want tips. I am more concerned with this than anything else.... but at least I can look back in the mirror and recognize myself again.
Hairloss doesn't match my personality. I don't want to "hit the gym brah" and become a knucklehead. So I hit the toppik hard. No one has ever seen the "real me". Not even my own semi-girlfriend of 10 years. She misses running her fingers through my hair, which I no longer allow her to do, and of which I secretly miss. My concealer regime is extreme but I manage to look very good. PM me if you want tips. I am more concerned with this than anything else.... but at least I can look back in the mirror and recognize myself again.
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Exactly. One of the things that disgusts me most about attitudes towards hairloss is people claiming that accepting and embracing an identity contrary to your authentic self and living that for the rest of your life is somehow the best thing to do, even arguing against treatments for things like hairloss. It's such a reprehensible thing to think without placing themselves in the same situation, most people lack a single ounce of empathy. Men in particular including my own close friends and family for the most part enjoy the idea of others being stuck in an existence where they feel like an outsider in their own body. Probably because most don't have to deal with this and enjoy the advantage over others because they will never have to feel the same way.
I agree that hair is a part of our identities even though it doesn't define our self-value blah blah, hair loss is making my life a living hell specially as a female whose hair is supposed to be her crowning glory but it is instead grabbing attention for making my scalp show through. Now life is a series of applying rogaine, shining mobile camera flash on my scalp and checking for new regrowth then realizing that no matter what happens my scalp will show through, getting a panic attack then convincing myself that something new will be released soon to restore my hair and my sanity.
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Feel you guys, and girls (for you it must be worse since male pattern baldness is normalized). I'm 31, and getting old. For me it's not the "stolen identity" that's the worst part. I never put too much of my identity into my hair-style (tho, I always put products in it and wanted to be presentable). But now, when facing having to buzz it, I truly feel like the "skin head" look is forced on me. A crew-cut, a jar head, a macho-look that I have no intent living up to. People always say, "get ripped." I want to stay healthy, but I'm not planning to spend all my spare time lifting weights to obtain a body fitting my crome-dome.
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