How Exactly Are Bald Men Perceived? A Bit More Of A Scientific Approach

[BaldyBalderBald]

I used to love rollercoasters. But now it does nothing for me. I even skydived pretty recently and it didn’t affect me at all. After we landed the instructor was all hyped up and obviously wanted some reaction out of me, so I had to fake one. It’s like my emotions have flatlined and there’s nothing there.

I was driving home one day and I knew there was no cops because I had driven the same road 15 minutes earlier, so for some reason I decided to speed up. I was driving maybe 200km/h (stopped looking at speedometre), but I was still calm. I’m trying to put myself in situations where I’ll feel something, but it’s just always the same. What the f*** is wrong with me?

You live up to your nickname, you're just simply not there

 

[JeanLucBB]

I love roller coasters, cabin lifts, heights, dangerous situations. I often find myself hoping something will go wrong. Not that I'm suicidal, or hate life, I just want something to happen. I remember when I used to get lifts with my drunk mate back from the pub, I'd fantasise about him crashing, people dieing, and me being devastated but also somehow holding it together.

I'm obviously fucked in the head. I watch videos of people rushing down the stairs during 911 and all I can think is that I wish I was there.

Everytime I'm on a plane I hope that someone tries to hijack it. Note the "tries". I'm not suicidal, I just want something to happen.

Anyhow, these feelings are the reason I've started down biking (I snowboard but only about 7 days out of a year), I f*****g love it. The intense feeling I get when I nearly slip is my favourite part.

I love this post. I am the similar but it's more I want it to happen to other people, not myself and then view the chaos from a safe distance.

"I'd fantasise about him crashing, people dieing, and me being devastated but also somehow holding it together."

Especially this. I always think about this with my best friend even though I love him very much but the brutally visceral impact on my emotions would be pleasurable I think, even if I was devastated like you say.

 

[countjulian]

sounds like a side effect of finasteride...

Seriously though this does describe possible sides of a severe lack of 5alpha reductase. Might want to look into it.

 

[Patrick_Bateman]

alpha as f*** tbh. you should have girls with you in these situations, they'll get turned on lol

the cowardly pussy route is easiest for me and i dont have motivation to try to be "cool" so i'm even more of a b**ch now that i'm bald ironically

It’s not really alpha when you’re ugly, it’s just annoying for people who are trying to enjoy themselves. I try to fake it so I don’t bring others down.

Besides I don’t like driving fast when I’m not alone in the car, I’m not really afraid of death, but I would hate to kill or harm someone else. Guess I don’t live up to my nickname in that way.

 

[Stanx22]

I used to love rollercoasters. But now it does nothing for me. I even skydived pretty recently and it didn’t affect me at all. After we landed the instructor was all hyped up and obviously wanted some reaction out of me, so I had to fake one. It’s like my emotions have flatlined and there’s nothing there.

I was driving home one day and I knew there was no cops because I had driven the same road 15 minutes earlier, so for some reason I decided to speed up. I was driving maybe 200km/h (stopped looking at speedometre), but I was still calm. I’m trying to put myself in situations where I’ll feel something, but it’s just always the same. What the f*** is wrong with me?

Your pain is too much for your brain to handle. You're psychologically and mentally fucked up to a point that some areas of your brain don't work properly anymore. It's a subconsciously defence mechanism your brain use for survival.

No emotions = no pain = more chances of survival (less suicidal thoughts, depression, etc).

It's actually happening to me now and i no longer care about being bald or not and i don't even care about taking treatments, i know this is fucked up and wrong, but i can't feel nothing about it.

No sadness, no anger, no hatred, no love, no happiness, no excitement, nothing, i completely feel nothing now.

It's better because i don't even feel pain, but i can't see myself as a human anymore.

 

[CaptainForehead]

And your heart is like ten miles wide !

Miles?

You were one of us ...

 

[CaptainForehead]

I used to love rollercoasters. But now it does nothing for me. I even skydived pretty recently and it didn’t affect me at all. After we landed the instructor was all hyped up and obviously wanted some reaction out of me, so I had to fake one. It’s like my emotions have flatlined and there’s nothing there.

I was driving home one day and I knew there was no cops because I had driven the same road 15 minutes earlier, so for some reason I decided to speed up. I was driving maybe 200km/h (stopped looking at speedometre), but I was still calm. I’m trying to put myself in situations where I’ll feel something, but it’s just always the same. What the f*** is wrong with me?

You're probably clinically depressed. You should go to a psychologist.

There is an actor, I forget his name, he said he realized he had depression when he was partaking in a car race and felt nothing.

 

[CaptainForehead]

mine are 5.5

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Really? Are you sure? 5.5 is smallllll.

5.5 = 50% cross section area of 7.75. Both of your wrists could fit into one @macaroni sized wrist.

 

[JeanLucBB]

I know, that's why i said it, not a joke at all. My emotions have been seriously dulled when i started taking Finasteride; i know some guys here will lel at the thought and say i'm an idiot for suggesting it but its totally true. When i first started on finasteride the effect was so clear i actually welcomed it - lack of emotions is awesome in business and i felt it really helped me. Maybe not all men who get on finasteride experience this but i certainly did and still do... at least with less emotions there is more internal peace... it's good in several ways, though obviously bad in others

The problem I have with this is that as you say it may have dulled your emotions, while others say it sets them off and gives them depression and suicidal thoughts. Was this something that happened over time or early on with finasteride, otherwise how can you know that it isn't just natural effects of ageing?

 

[CaptainForehead]

I've actually never measured my wrist circumference, now I'm afraid that if I do they will come out to 6 inches and I'll have to hate myself.

Schrödinger's wrist.

 

[BaldyBalderBald]

The problem I have with this is that as you say it may have dulled your emotions, while others say it sets them off and gives them depression and suicidal thoughts. Was this something that happened over time or early on with finasteride, otherwise how can you know that it isn't just natural effects of ageing?

One symptom of depression is paradoxically a lack of emotions due to low brain dopamine and serotonin levels
And of course depression leads to suicidal thoughts

 

[Stanx22]

Having no emotions is the only positive aspect of depression, it's a bliss tbh.

 

[Exodus2011]

It’s not really alpha when you’re ugly, it’s just annoying for people who are trying to enjoy themselves. I try to fake it so I don’t bring others down.

Besides I don’t like driving fast when I’m not alone in the car, I’m not really afraid of death, but I would hate to kill or harm someone else. Guess I don’t live up to my nickname in that way.

idk masculine alpha ugly guys will still get laid a lot more than beta ugly guys i think

and thats good. batman is just a scarcastic troll of greedy powerful narcissistic people anyways, he was never meant to be someone to look up to lol

 

[CaptainForehead]

Started happening about 1-2 weeks after i started taking Finasteride and it was full-on dulling of emotions. I feel it actually helped me because i am naturally more anxious and on edge, but when i take Finasteride i just don't feel that at all. I confirmed this when i stopped taking finasteride for 4 months and it was back, then when i started again emotions were once again dulled. And before anyone says it, no i wasn't even aware this was a side effect before taking finasteride, i actually searched for it when it started happening to see if it was related (which i do believe it is). Again, i don't see this as a bad side effect, to me it is quite helpful. Emotions are messy, if you can somehow control them or lessen them you could have a good advantage in life.

 

[Exodus2011]

Started happening about 1-2 weeks after i started taking Finasteride and it was full-on dulling of emotions. I feel it actually helped me because i am naturally more anxious and on edge, but when i take Finasteride i just don't feel that at all. I confirmed this when i stopped taking finasteride for 4 months and it was back, then when i started again emotions were once again dulled. And before anyone says it, no i wasn't even aware this was a side effect before taking finasteride, i actually searched for it when it started happening to see if it was related (which i do believe it is). Again, i don't see this as a bad side effect, to me it is quite helpful. Emotions are messy, if you can somehow control them or lessen them you could have a good advantage in life.

thats not confirming nigguh. you knew you stopped it, you could have expected it to lessen simply because of that, that placebo effect

 

[BaldyBalderBald]

That is true, but how do you explain the first go round when i started taking it? I won't disagree that the mind is a powerful tool and can truly make you feel things that aren't there, but with this i do believe Finasteride is playing a role.

You noticed only dulled emotions ? No concentration problems or cognitive impairement ?

 

[Afro_Vacancy]

@macaroni I'd be curious if you got similar effects on smaller doses of finasteride.

We know that the dose response function of finasteride is flat for hair growth. We have no idea what it is in the brain.

 

[Afro_Vacancy]

actually i noticed difficulty concentrating and constructing sentences; i'm way sharper when off finasteride. There's pluses and minuses for me, on one hand it makes me calm and calculated, on the other hand it makes me less able to verbalize my thoughts (though still manegeable)... i know noone will believe me anyways but i don't really care, this is what i've experienced. Again, i like taking Finasteride; i have no sexual side effects so these things are easy to handle.

I'm pretty sure that I had slurred speech on finasteride.

 

[Exodus2011]

That is true, but how do you explain the first go round when i started taking it? I won't disagree that the mind is a powerful tool and can truly make you feel things that aren't there, but with this i do believe Finasteride is playing a role.

placebo could have factored in there too, you knew you were taking the finasteride, thats the key, your awareness of it

 

[BaldyBalderBald]

actually i noticed difficulty concentrating and constructing sentences; i'm way sharper when off finasteride. There's pluses and minuses for me, on one hand it makes me calm and calculated, on the other hand it makes me less able to verbalize my thoughts (though still manegeable)... i know noone will believe me anyways but i don't really care, this is what i've experienced. Again, i like taking Finasteride; i have no sexual side effects so these things are easy to handle.

I believe you, i got the same, it started impacting my lifework and social life, amoung with a certain lack of emotions
All these got packed in a dumb "brain fog" f*****g term

When i start coding these last months, sometimes i even block on simple syntaxes i've been using 100x times, memory is kinda bugged