Hey i wanted to join the forum to tell my story and get some advice, thanks for listening!
I'm a student in the health and fitness industry and also follow as healthy lifestyle as i can.
It's summer break right now in-between college years and i work doing landscaping. I noticed that everyone (nearly) at my landscaping job has some form of male pattern baldness. This started to make me paranoid so i wore a hat constantly. I had never noticed any hair loss until a couple weeks into the job. I'm 20 years old and this devastated me. I admit i had 2 weeks which were the worst weeks of my life. I was very suicidal and had to take some days off work for a mental health break.
Come to think of it now i'm coming out of the depression and i realize how ridiculous it was that something as minuscule as hair loss had me feeling as if i was ready to kick the can. For the 2 weeks that i first noticed some hair loss around my crown i was thinking about how no girl would like me and how i would eventually marry an ugly wife who is all i can get and then have kids who dont like themselves because they inherited my genes and would someday want to kill themselves as i currently did. I came to the 2 week conclusion that i should simply just not even pro-create. Hence, when the suicidal tendencies were at their strongest.
I've recently came out of it now, thank god! I came out of my depression by talking about it to people who mean something to me instead of hiding it. I told the girl i am talking to about it, as much as when i was hiding it i was afraid that she wouldnt like me soon or notice it all the time and be not attracted to me soon.
She was really cool about it and i had her completely freaked out about what i had to talk "to her about" as the text message had implied. haha
She made me feel really good and explained how that's not why she like me.
If there are any of you out there who are feeling how i was, take some advice from me.
As much as you want to believe that the following is not true and that hair loss is the end of the world...
1. It really is all about personality and who you are on the inside.
2. Hair loss is not the end of the world. At the end of the day, it really is just hair.
3. Talk to someone about who you trust, if your loved ones are worth your time, they really won't care.
4. There are much worse things that can happen to you like being born with a disease or being paralyzed.
5. People live in third world countries where their children die from having no clean water and we want to kill ourselves over not having perfect hair? Dont be so selfish.
ANYWAYS, that was a little history about me. This is my question for the future.
As someone who is trying to pursue a healthy lifestyle, i'm not a fan of western medicine and pills. I have researched propecia and it's officially off my list with the studies which show links to sexual dysfunction.
However i was considering rogaine (topical), although my dilemma is that i'm not even sure if i really am losing hair or if i am simply being a hypochondriac and driving myself insane. Like i said i work 12 hours a day in the sun where the sun dries my hair out constantly and then i come home and use a cheap SLS infected shampoo and then blowdry my hair. It is probably just dry and breaking. Although it is in the crown area. Yesturday i used only conditioner and WOW, what a difference, hopefully the problem is that my hair was just dry.
My problem is that i would like to use rogaine to prevent any possible DHT from making me lose hair but i'm not sure if i truly am even losing hair, my hair is thin in the crown and i see it on my hands when i shower but it could have always been like that. I don't want to start using rogaine and create a problem that wasnt there in the first place with the long term effects of applying a chemical to my scalp forever.
Although, at the same time i want to get on the problem as soon as possible if one does exist and prevent it from getting any further.
Thanks for reading my novel haha
Really do appreciate your time guys
I'm a student in the health and fitness industry and also follow as healthy lifestyle as i can.
It's summer break right now in-between college years and i work doing landscaping. I noticed that everyone (nearly) at my landscaping job has some form of male pattern baldness. This started to make me paranoid so i wore a hat constantly. I had never noticed any hair loss until a couple weeks into the job. I'm 20 years old and this devastated me. I admit i had 2 weeks which were the worst weeks of my life. I was very suicidal and had to take some days off work for a mental health break.
Come to think of it now i'm coming out of the depression and i realize how ridiculous it was that something as minuscule as hair loss had me feeling as if i was ready to kick the can. For the 2 weeks that i first noticed some hair loss around my crown i was thinking about how no girl would like me and how i would eventually marry an ugly wife who is all i can get and then have kids who dont like themselves because they inherited my genes and would someday want to kill themselves as i currently did. I came to the 2 week conclusion that i should simply just not even pro-create. Hence, when the suicidal tendencies were at their strongest.
I've recently came out of it now, thank god! I came out of my depression by talking about it to people who mean something to me instead of hiding it. I told the girl i am talking to about it, as much as when i was hiding it i was afraid that she wouldnt like me soon or notice it all the time and be not attracted to me soon.
She was really cool about it and i had her completely freaked out about what i had to talk "to her about" as the text message had implied. haha
She made me feel really good and explained how that's not why she like me.
If there are any of you out there who are feeling how i was, take some advice from me.
As much as you want to believe that the following is not true and that hair loss is the end of the world...
1. It really is all about personality and who you are on the inside.
2. Hair loss is not the end of the world. At the end of the day, it really is just hair.
3. Talk to someone about who you trust, if your loved ones are worth your time, they really won't care.
4. There are much worse things that can happen to you like being born with a disease or being paralyzed.
5. People live in third world countries where their children die from having no clean water and we want to kill ourselves over not having perfect hair? Dont be so selfish.
ANYWAYS, that was a little history about me. This is my question for the future.
As someone who is trying to pursue a healthy lifestyle, i'm not a fan of western medicine and pills. I have researched propecia and it's officially off my list with the studies which show links to sexual dysfunction.
However i was considering rogaine (topical), although my dilemma is that i'm not even sure if i really am losing hair or if i am simply being a hypochondriac and driving myself insane. Like i said i work 12 hours a day in the sun where the sun dries my hair out constantly and then i come home and use a cheap SLS infected shampoo and then blowdry my hair. It is probably just dry and breaking. Although it is in the crown area. Yesturday i used only conditioner and WOW, what a difference, hopefully the problem is that my hair was just dry.
My problem is that i would like to use rogaine to prevent any possible DHT from making me lose hair but i'm not sure if i truly am even losing hair, my hair is thin in the crown and i see it on my hands when i shower but it could have always been like that. I don't want to start using rogaine and create a problem that wasnt there in the first place with the long term effects of applying a chemical to my scalp forever.
Although, at the same time i want to get on the problem as soon as possible if one does exist and prevent it from getting any further.
Thanks for reading my novel haha
Really do appreciate your time guys