Shannen Doherty Shaves Head For Chemotherapy (breast Cancer) - Looks Devastated

[Roberto_72]

Excellent article at the bottom of the post that everyone here should really read.

Excellent catch by @Joan indeed.
The article in People is really stunning too. It is an article about the loss of hair rather than about the cancer, which is what caused the hair loss. I don't understand what gave the idea for that angle.

 

[Afro_Vacancy]

Fred and h.l., your protracted fights can look like noise.

Fred, using the dislike button makes you look petty.

 

[Roberto_72]

There is a new uk campaign to raise funds for the poor patients this month of August.
It is called Brave the Shave. I think it is a nice initiative.
But... So much for "just shave it..."

 

[CopeForLife]

They don't even shave it just buzzcutting it, it is literally NOTHING.

The difference between 0.00001 buzzcut and normal hair is much less than between sleek bald and 0.000001 inch buzzcut.

 

[Rudiger]

This is me "dragging Fred down".

That's what you always tell me too.

Do you have some kind of inferiority complex? Do you need attention?

Are you pissed because very few members find your posts interesting?

And that's why you need to get into these endless pointless arguments?

And keep using the dislike button, David never said you aren't allowed to use it, he just said it makes you look petty, which you didn't address.

Last act of a desperate man, embrace the pettiness.

 

[CopeForLife]

You see? It's brave to shave one's head.

Everywhere, you see the fullheads blatantly acknowledging that hair is very valuable, and that shaving it is an act of bravery.

Yet, they'll be like "It's just hair, you're such a vain pussy, just shave it off!"

They can't even see the irony.

When you are fullhead it is a brave to buzzcut it (let alone SHAVE).

When you are bald it is NORMAL to SHAVE it and you are PUSSY if you don't do it or ranting about it!

 

[Rudiger]

What the hell do you want me to reply to this?

The dislike button is just quicker and more convenient.

You wrote how I "drag you down" after getting yourself involved in an argument that had nothing to do with you, does everything need explaining?

And I just wrote that you should keep using it, of course it's quicker and convenient whatever but you still haven't acknowledged how petty and pathetic it makes you look. Carry on though I like that you're showing your true colours.

And on top of that I like that it stops you replying, no I didn't ask you to reply to me, I don't know where you got that impression, I don't think you should reply to anyone, ever.

 

[I.D WALKER]

Like and dislike may be too black and white for some folk's temperament. For diplomacy purposes, I am calling for more ambiguity;
how about a "meh", button as a middle of the high road alternative?

 

[cocohot]

You see? It's brave to shave one's head.

Everywhere, you see the fullheads blatantly acknowledging that hair is very valuable, and that shaving it is an act of bravery.

Yet, they'll be like "It's just hair, you're such a vain pussy, just shave it off!"

They can't even see the irony.

It's just one of the facets of political correctness.

Everyone knows the truth, that baldness is ugly and ruins your life, but they aren't allowed to say it. Fred and Evillocks literally got thrown into mental asylums just for saying the truth: "I'm going bald and this is going to ruin my life and this makes me feel bad".

This is why no one in real life will ever know how depressed I am, because I know what the consequences will be: Everyone will abandon me, be extra cruel to me to punish me for saying the truth ("man up! It's just hair"), and then I will be locked up in a mental asylum.

It's just like all the other true things that you aren't allowed to say by society.

 

[EvilLocks]

You see? It's brave to shave one's head.

Everywhere, you see the fullheads blatantly acknowledging that hair is very valuable, and that shaving it is an act of bravery.

Yet, they'll be like "It's just hair, you're such a vain pussy, just shave it off!"

They can't even see the irony.

So much truth.

 

[Rudiger]

*Yawn*

Why did you even bother with this? You often ask me to explain why I make a post, and I do (and then you shut up) so now I must ask the same, what did you just prove or contribute with this yawn? How are you making this forum a better place with this?

I made a completely valid argument about how you dragged yourself into an argument here, and you can't face up to that, so you focus on the practically irrelevant part of my post which was just the last sentence.

Because you insist on questions- why did you say I drag you down into this when on the previous page you replied to me?

 

[EvilLocks]

It's just one of the facets of political correctness.

Everyone knows the truth, that baldness is ugly and ruins your life, but they aren't allowed to say it. Fred and Evillocks literally got thrown into mental asylums just for saying the truth: "I'm going bald and this is going to ruin my life and this makes me feel bad".

Being in a mental institution was the worst experience of my life. There I was, a scared 21-year old girl who was going bald but nobody believed her. I knew what was happening to me and that I was completely sane, yet people (even my own family) thought I was a schizophrenic. Everyone told me that 1) I was not going bald - it's completely impossible for girls to go bald! (Even doctors said this to my face), and 2) IF I was losing my hair - it was "just hair", right? I was told by a dermatologist to just get over it and buy myself a wig. Right. As if that's going to solve my problem!

I will always remember those weeks in a mental institution with sheer horror. And anger. I was a sane (but depressed) person surrounded by lunatics, literally. I remember one man that always used to walk down the hallways wearing nothing but his underwear, while singing riddles. He always came into my room and claimed it was his. That's how insane people were there, guys. Now imagine being sane among all those lunatics, while people constantly told you that you were insane and made things up in your head. It was absolutely horrific.

Now of course, everyone agrees with me and sees that I was right all along; I am going bald. Still I have yet to get an apology from all those people who thought I was a lunatic. I'm actually so angry with all these people who didn't believe me, or told me to get over it and that it was just hair. No, It's not "just hair". Hair is an important part of your identity, and without it you feel lost. Those fullheads would cry themselves to sleep every night if they had to endure what we're forced to endure on a daily basis, and many of them would probably simply kill themselves. Yet they tell us "it's just hair - get over it!" Please.

 

[cocohot]

Being in a mental institution was the worst experience of my life. There I was, a scared 21-year old girl who was going bald but nobody believed her. I knew what was happening to me and that I was completely sane, yet people (even my own family) thought I was a schizophrenic. Everyone told me that 1) I was not going bald - it's completely impossible for girls to go bald! (Even doctors said this to my face), and 2) IF I was losing my hair - it was "just hair", right? I was told by a dermatologist to just get over it and buy myself a wig. Right. As if that's going to solve my problem!

I will always remember those weeks in a mental institution with sheer horror. And anger. I was a sane (but depressed) person surrounded by lunatics, literally. I remember one man that always used to walk down the hallways wearing nothing but his underwear, while singing riddles. He always came into my room and claimed it was his. That's how insane people were there, guys. Now imagine being sane among all those lunatics, while people constantly told you that you were insane and made things up in your head. It was absolutely horrific.

Now of course, everyone agrees with me and sees that I was right all along; I am going bald. Still I have yet to get an apology from all those people who thought I was a lunatic. I'm actually so angry with all these people who didn't believe me, or told me to get over it and that it was just hair. No, It's not "just hair". Hair is an important part of your identity, and without it you feel lost. Those fullheads would cry themselves to sleep every night if they had to endure what we're forced to endure on a daily basis, and many of them would probably simply kill themselves. Yet they tell us "it's just hair - get over it!" Please.

The only difference between me versus you and Fred is that I knew that telling people would just make things worse. I would 100% be committed to a lunatic asylum just like you were if I ever told people the truth about how I feel. But if you added up all the mental issues both you and Fred have mentioned I have gone through them all.

I am completely insane (according to society) but in reality how we reacted is an entirely sane rational way to having your life completely ruined before it even gets properly started. It would actually be delusional to react any other way than with depression.

And f*****g lol "It's just hair", They can f*** off. It's not "just hair", it's not being a deformed freak. It is essential for life, for social, sexual and professional success - you know, the stuff that makes life worth living. Competing in life without hair (because that's what life is, a competition) is like competing in a race against Usain Bolt without legs.

This is what our society does to people who dare say the truth about anything: they are locked away.

 

[cocohot]

One time at the mental institute, as I was about fall asleep, I feel two hands starting to squeeze my neck, and I hear a guy (who apparently took LSD but never came back from his psychosis) say: "You feel less smart now!"

Absolutely traumatizing. Other than that, the medical staff, my family, my friends, they were all parroting the same nonsense:

"How can you be sure that you're going bald? I see hair on your head!" "And even then, it's just hair, at least you don't have cancer" bla bla.

Looking back on my experience there, I can safely say mental clinics are a joke, the whole psychiatric field is a joke.

I've also met some cool people there, that just had an eating disorder for example. More than half of them is dead.

Suicide of course. And these mental health professionals never feel responsible. If they can't prevent that, what's their purpose? They're useless.

We were talking about sales in another thread and how useless and random it is, but psychiatry is right up there with it.

Half your patients kill themselves. "So what, that doesn't mean I'm a bad psychiatrist!" Get the hell out of here.

And these guys can still practice.

People reacting rationally to real problems are being told they are crazy and are being locked up when they totally rationally react with panic, despair and hopelessness.

They're told they have a biological brain disease that needs medical treatment. Actually they have real problems with no solutions, taking drugs isn't going make a paraplegiuc's legs work again, make your dead mother come back to life, our hair grow back etc.

 

[cocohot]

I was not committed by the way.

I made the phone call to go there.

But you could have been.

 

[EvilLocks]

Competing in life without hair (because that's what life is, a competition) is like competing in a race against Usain Bolt without legs.

Truth. Like I always say; I wish baldness didn't exist. That would make life so much more fair if everyone were on equal terms.

 

[Exodus2011]

the thoughts about baldness being sh*t are rational but not giving up on life. and i'm saying that as someone who has "given up on life" lol. compensation is the best route of course. i just want my hair back so i can damn move out from my moms house already and go to college without worrying about sticking out like a sore thumb