How Do You Stop Obsessing About Hair Loss ?

[Baldingat188]

I am an early stage diffuse thinner and I find it really hard to get it off my mind. I constantly feel like I am heading for doom and there is nothing I can do about it. I probly take at least 100 pics of my hair everyday and spend 90% of the time while I am alone looking at my hair. This takes a toll but I don't see how I can just "ignore it"

Lately I have tried to make some progress with dating , ect but whenever I am talking to someone attractive off the opposite sex I can't shake the feeling " they are to good for me" , " they wouldn't like me if they knew about my hair loss"

I want to escape this mental prison but it seems impossible . Dating and all that stuff makes it worse because you are worried about looking good for other people in addition to yourself

Please no "man up" answers. But really , does anyone else Obbess this much , if so how do you combat it ?

 

[Exodus2011]

try distractingyourself

its totally unimportant in the grand scheme of things

look at the news, try getting active theres so much going on right now

 

[buckthorn]

try distractingyourself

its totally unimportant in the grand scheme of things

look at the news, try getting active theres so much going on right now

it's true... as much as WE are obsessed with it, there is not a single person on the planet that gives a single f***.

 

[sunchyme1]

alcohol

 

[Swoop]

Best is to beat if if you can. That will probably stop you from obsessing over it.

finasteride, dutasteride, RU58841, plugs, rugs , minoxidil etc.

 

[CopeForLife]

I am an early stage diffuse thinner and I find it really hard to get it off my mind. I constantly feel like I am heading for doom and there is nothing I can do about it. I probly take at least 100 pics of my hair everyday and spend 90% of the time while I am alone looking at my hair. This takes a toll but I don't see how I can just "ignore it"

Lately I have tried to make some progress with dating , ect but whenever I am talking to someone attractive off the opposite sex I can't shake the feeling " they are to good for me" , " they wouldn't like me if they knew about my hair loss"

I want to escape this mental prison but it seems impossible . Dating and all that stuff makes it worse because you are worried about looking good for other people in addition to yourself

Please no "man up" answers. But really , does anyone else Obbess this much , if so how do you combat it ?

You will just burn out at some point and your obsession will be decreased

Also hopping on anti hairloss medications helps since you can cope with "I am doing everything I able to"

Since I started finasteride I check my hair only 10 mins/day and do 1-2 photos of decayed hairline per day

 

[Baldingat188]

Distraction is great, I do that alot. But I think now that I am sort of making an effort to date ( I really don't have much experience with it) that has spiked my anxiety about it again. Im not sure if dating with hair loss is even possible, to much constant self doubt.

it really is dumb that our "best" treatments for hair loss hardly work for people with severe balding.

 

[mdmnota]

I would suggest working out, if you don't do it already. It made me think more of my body than my hair, and improved my confiedence. Seeing your body changing in positive way, distracts you from the hair loss.

 

[blackg]

alcohol

You're my type of man.

 

[blackg]

Seeing your body changing in positive way, distracts you from the hair loss.

My body changes every time I look at Jennifer Lawrence.

 

[Dante92]

It's simple: you distract yourself by becoming obsessed with something else.

 

[sunchyme1]

It's simple: you distract yourself by becoming obsessed with something else.

OHHHHHHH DANTE!!!!!!!!

whats going on man?

 

[sunchyme1]

You're my type of man.

cheers mate

i suspect half of those guys who were following the brotzu thread are on their way to getting shitfaced pretty soon. looks like it turned out to be a dead end which im not really surprised about

 

[tellersquill]

Stoic philosophy would be a good place to start.

 

[Assemblage23]

Strong hairloss regimen for a year, realize you are okay and move on.

 

[EvilLocks]

I am an early stage diffuse thinner and I find it really hard to get it off my mind. I constantly feel like I am heading for doom and there is nothing I can do about it. I probly take at least 100 pics of my hair everyday and spend 90% of the time while I am alone looking at my hair. This takes a toll but I don't see how I can just "ignore it"

The good news; You will eventually stop obsessing over it. Either because your regimen works (best case scenario), or -
The bad news; ^ This means you've given up. You've lost enough hair to realize that there's not much you can do anymore, ergo you stop taking pictures of your hair, stop reading countless of hair loss articles on the Internet, stop counting the hairs that fall from your head, stop looking in the mirror under different lighting to see if your hair looks better or worse, stop crying every day etc. Desperation eventually turns to apathy, at least that's how it was for me. Realizing that I'd done everything I could for my hair, and that there was nothing more I could do actually helped me deal with the obsession and the depression.

 

[Exodus2011]

yep. obviously taking meds and such is first course of action. but for severe norwoods like myself they dont work that well. and evillocks is right i mean eventually you do get tired of being depressed from it, unless you get off on it haha. i mean i sure dont. theres only so much time you get to exist, i dont wanna spend it miserable. at least you get to experience all there is to experience as a baldie, like other than the obvious having lots of sex with hot women lolz

the sh*t that makes you dysfunctional like paralysis is what i fear , and am thankful that i don't have

 

[shookwun]

Exchange one problem for the other, and purchase the Rolls-Royce of wigs.



I used to be a coocoo head like yourself, still am, but managing much better nowadays.


hair transplants are the only real option, and even those are limited to what you can achieve.

 

[shookwun]

You will just burn out at some point and your obsession will be decreased

Also hopping on anti hairloss medications helps since you can cope with "I am doing everything I able to"

Since I started finasteride I check my hair only 10 mins/day and do 1-2 photos of decayed hairline per day

Damn son, I could land two boeing 777s on that forehead, and still have landing space left over,